Principal Product Design Engineer

At Molex in Harrisburg, PA, this Principal Product Design Engineer role focuses on setting the technical direction for next-generation connector and cable system design. You will lead product design strategy and documentation from early market definition through production and release, with a specific emphasis on board mount and cable mount connectors and cable harness design for data storage systems and telecommunications.

What you’ll do

• Lead the design and development of next-generation products and components for high-speed cables and connectors
• Collaborate with customers, vendors, marketing, sales, and other engineering teams during pre-production stages of new products
• Develop and validate interconnect products, including high-speed connectors, connector cable assemblies, and related mechanical hardware for datacom and telecom applications such as hubs, servers, switches, and routers
• Create original product ideas and translate them into practical, economical models through feasibility studies
• Lead engineering design evaluation and the design proposal process to the customer
• Build prototype samples and perform validation
• Provide technical support to Operations, including Quality and Production, to improve efficiency and support safe launch
• Resolve product-related issues through closure and manage the design change process
• Build market and customer insight by connecting business engineering teams with customer engineering teams
• Maintain system-level understanding of the customer application and the product design concept to meet customer expectations

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline
• 15+ years of experience in the connector industry
• Expertise in contact physics
• Experience leading new product design efforts
• Expertise providing technical direction and coaching to a design team
• Design expertise across board launch and wire termination technologies
• Working knowledge of high-density board termination rework process

Tools and technologies

• NX
• TeamCenter

Additional experience that helps

• Six Sigma training or certification
• Customer-facing experience in the data storage market
• Experience working with NX and TeamCenter
• Geometric dimensioning and tolerance

Compensation and education

Salary: USD 150,000 - 200,000 per year. Education: Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts
• Life insurance
• AD&D and disability
• Retirement
• Paid vacation and time off
• Educational assistance
• May include infertility assistance, paid parental leave, and adoption assistance