Field Application Engineer- Optical Connectivity

Field Applications Engineer, Optical Connectivity - Datacom

Job Description

Located in the San Francisco Bay area

The Molex Sales Team in Fremont is seeking a dynamic and proactive Field Application Engineer (FAE) to lead technical engagements that enable the successful design-in and deployment of Molex optical connectivity solutions at a key strategic datacom customer.

You will not only drive technical engagements with customers in targeted areas of growth but also uncover new opportunities while developing strong relationships with customer engineering.

Your work will directly support the adoption of high-density optical connectivity solutions across advanced datacenter and AI infrastructure environments.

Our Team

Molex creates connections for life by enabling technologies that transform the future and improve lives.

With presence in more than 40 countries, Molex offers a complete range of connectivity products, services and solutions for the data communications, medical, industrial, automotive and consumer electronics industries.

Our Datacom and Specialty Solutions (DSS) team designs an extensive product line serving customers in telecommunications, datacom, hyperscalers, cloud, data center and storage applications.

What You Will Do


* Partner with customer engineering teams and Molex Sales to secure new design wins and build a convertible Salesforce pipeline that drives profitable year-over-year growth.


* Establish strong, strategic technical relationships with key engineering, system architecture, and deployment stakeholders at targeted datacom customer.


* Deliver innovative application solutions using Molex optical connectivity products, including connectors, patch cords, trunks, panels, and end-to-end infrastructure solutions.


* Support customer architecture and hardware teams in deploying optical connectivity solutions across rack-, row-, and pod-level datacenter topologies, ensuring performance, density, scalability, and reliability requirements are met.


* Collaborate with customer development, manufacturing, process, and reliability teams to resolve technical challenges related to optical connectivity design-in, installation, qualification, and deployment.


* Work with customer engineering teams to define, validate, and optimize optical infrastructure-covering trunks, patch cords, cassettes, connectors, and panels-from compute and switch platforms to the broader fiber plant, including polarity, labeling, manageability, and capacity planning.


* Act as a trusted technical advisor, providing insights and recommendations to enhance current deployments and inform future datacenter architecture decisions.


* Identify, diagnose, and resolve complex technical issues related to product integration, system compatibility, optical loss budgets, mechanical interfaces, serviceability, and deployment constraints.


* Partner with internal engineering, product management, advanced development, and sales ...