Director, Technology Development

Your Job

The Director, Technology Development will have the ability to evaluate the Datacenter/AI rack market and customers, recognize trends and set forth a plan to penetrate business opportunities/applications that will deploy a liquid cooled interconnect solution for switch and compute applications.

This individual will define the customer engagement strategy specific to the Thermal engineering teams and work with the organization for execution.

Responsibilities will also include the coordination of product support functions targeting customer qualification requirements (Application engineering, Qual testing, etc.)

Our Team

Molex possesses a rich heritage in the optical industry.

We provide the highest performing and field-proven copper and optical communication solutions from components, passive and active modules to integrated line-cards.

Our team is dedicated to continuous innovation in both copper optical component function integration, miniaturization, and manufacturing automation.

We provide cutting edge technology with a comprehensive mechanical, electrical and software integration capabilities enable us to serve the needs of high-density, high-bandwidth, and flexible networks.

What You Will Do


* Engage customer engineering teams to lead the technical specification development for the liquid cooled cage product including total power, temperature rise, liquid flow rates, mechanical geometry specific to front panel chassis requirements supporting both networking and compute hardware specific to host (switch) to module (NIC card) cabling applications.


* Identifies product and application trends/opportunities to drive next gen product roadmaps aligning with Switch and GPU silicon suppliers in addition to the enterprise networking chassis suppliers.


* Support application engineering during system bring up/debug (Thermal qualification).

On site test set up, troubleshooting and design engineering feedback to address application specific changes.


* Establish partnerships with the liquid cooling eco system (Cold plate, QD) suppliers.

Acting as a technical lead to establish acceptable performance criteria, tolerance ranges, long term reliability and durability as well as developing an advanced development roadmap to address potential future needs of next generation systems.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)


* Bachelor's degree in engineering or related technical discipline (Optics, Electrical and or mechanical engineering)


* At least 7 years of thermal component development (High speed communication systems) and program/project management


* Experience in cold plate implementations at the Chassis and Rack level for Design and test


* Experience developing customer relationships at the leadership level


* Experience communicating across all levels of business and executive leadership presence


* Business acumen to deliver high level communication in the specified field

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