Engineering Lead

Your Job

Molex brings together innovation and technology to deliver electronic solutions to customers worldwide.

With a presence in more than 40 countries, Molex offers a full suite of solutions and services for many markets, including data communications, consumer electronics, industrial, automotive, commercial vehicle and medical.

Molex is seeking an experienced Product Engineering Lead to join our Copper Solutions team.

This team is responsible for the conceptualization, design, and launch our industry leading high-speed connector and cable systems.

Successful team members are highly skilled professionals who thrive in an environment of constant learning and innovation.

Products for this industry focus on rapidly growing markets in cloud computing, AI, and hyperscale applications.

This role will be leading projects from concept through design validation and initial production.

What You Will Do


* Lead new product development of new interconnect products, including high speed connectors, connector cable assemblies, and miscellaneous related mechanical hardware for datacom and telecom applications such as servers, switches, routers, AI accelerators, and more.


* Actively collaborate with cross functional team members in signal integrity, manufacturing integration, product management, sales, state of the art test laboratories, on-premise model shop, and leadership teams.


* Establish and review feasibility of mechanical & electrical functional requirements for new connector systems


* Knowledge share with global product development team members, applying collective experience to new product designs


* Balance signal integrity and manufacturing requirements by developing cost competitive and creative designs that are efficient to manufacture while meeting market requirements.


* Develop test plans and product specification documents for internal testing and external customers.


* Clearly document and present to management: design features, analysis, and risks.


* Guide manufacturing and quality assurance during product launches; have travel opportunities to visit global manufacturing sites.


* Create relationships with leadership, cross functional team members and peers through team building activities and growth opportunities operating as One Molex Team


* Lead the organization in identification, evaluation, and implementation of new technologies and methodologies to enable next generation products, improve costs, quality and New Product Development (NPD) processes.


* Track engineering timelines & deliverables, leveraging global engineering resources to maximize efficiency and minimize time-to-market.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)


* Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related field


* Experience in mechanical design of assemblies developed for high-volume production


* History of leading a cross-functional team through a product development process (PDP) from conce...