Product Design Engineer

As a Product Design Engineer, you will be responsible to design, model, analyze, characterize high-speed connectors, cables, and systems within our Copper Solutions IO enterprise division team. In this role you will provide technical expertise in connector, cable design for the exponentially growing data storage systems and telecommunications market. This is a dynamic group of highly skilled professionals that will provide an opportunity for constant learning and innovation. This role will be leading projects from idea to high volume production. These new products drive the industry making a big impact on our customers and their products. The successful applicant will have the ability to appropriately plan and see assignments through to completion with minimal direction, provide leadership to other team members; develop timing, meet project schedules, manage risks, accurately quote design, and systematically solve problems of a complex scope.

The primary location for this position is the Molex Guadalajara Facility - Molex offers a very flexible work environment to suit our talent needs.

Our Team

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.

What You Will Do

• Be a team member in a global organization designing and developing leading edge new products and components for the high-speed cable and connector industry.
• You will be interfacing with professional cross functional team members in our signal integrity team, manufacturing integration team, program management, sales organization, state of the art test laboratories, high tech R&D model shop, manufacturing and senior leadership teams.
• Design and develop new interconnect products, including high speed connectors, connector cable assemblies, and miscellaneous related mechanical hardware for datacom and telecom applications such as hubs, servers, switches, routers, HBA servers, and RAIDS.
• Collaborating to develop cost competitive and creative designs with the manufacturing, and signal integrity team that are efficient to manufacture while meeting our high-performance market requirements.
• Develop product and application specifications documents for testing that meet our customer requirements and general market expectations.
• Present concepts and detailed requirements internally and to customers to obtain support for development of major new products.
• Support Manufacturing and Quality Assurance during product launches and have travel opportunities to visit our manufacturing sites and meet the global team.

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• 5+ years experience in mechanical Product Design and development with proven technical leadership.
• Experience with Finite Element Analysis (FEA).
• Expert use in GD&T (Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing) and concepts.
• Experience with advanced parametric 3D CAD systems.
• Advanced English.

• Master's degree or PhD in Mechanical Engineering or other related engineering field.
• Siemens NX experience.
• Design experience with high speed, high density connectors, cable assemblies, and interconnect products.
• Design experience with products manufactured utilizing electroplating and automated assembly.
• Knowledge of regulatory agency testing requirements (e.g., UL/CSA, NEBS, EMC/EMI requirements).
• Good understanding and practical knowledge of Six Sigma quality development tools and principles (DOE, FMEA, etc.).
• Understanding and application of sound project management techniques managing projects to timelines, due dates and deadlines.
• Design experience with products manufactured using the some of the following processes: progressive die stamping, injection molding, die casting and insert molding.

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Who We Are

As a Koch company, Molex is a leading supplier of connectors and interconnect components, driving innovation in electronics and supporting industries from automotive to health care and consumer to -data communications. The thousands of innovators who work for Molex have made us a global electronics leader. Our experienced people, groundbreaking products and leading-edge technologies help us deliver a wider array of solutions to more markets than ever before.

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