Senior Product Design Engineer: Lead Core Technologies

Molex; Región Sur; On-site; MXN 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Molex is seeking a Senior Product Design Engineer to spearhead the development of core technologies for automotive connector products. You will guide projects from concept to validation, ensuring manufacturability, cost-effectiveness, and high quality.

You will mentor engineers, drive analytical studies, manage design blocks, and collaborate with Product Management to align roadmaps with customer needs; travel ~10% is expected.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 6 years of product design experience in the automotive industry, with expertise in electrical connector design.
• Ability to lead product design development products, strong mechanical aptitude.
• Problem Solving leadership & strong critical thinking abilities.
• Experience in creating and maintaining engineering work plans and timelines for the engineering team.
• Strong understanding of resins, metals, engineering tools, processes, and manufacturing techniques such as injection molding, stamping, plating, and assembly.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product management to develop technology roadmaps around customer needs for new technology and product development (from the HTML).
• Lead management and development of core technologies (building blocks) and own a portfolio of design building blocks for product development.
• Lead documentation of project scope, requirements, feasibility, and engineering work plans.
• Lead technical discussions with customers, showcasing Molex's capabilities to solve problems.
• Lead concept development, ensure designs are manufacturable, cost-effective, and meet requirements.
• Define strategies for risk mitigation and lead DFMEA, FEA, tolerance analysis, and other analytical studies.
• Create feature/product models and drawings using GD&T, ensuring accurate dimensioning and tolerancing.
• Manage ECM process and review documentation updates by engineers.
• Develop test plans (DVP&R) to validate product performance, analyze results using statistics, and perform DOE and Capability Studies.
• Lead root cause analysis for complex issues and provide technical mentoring; lead technical reviews with internal and external teams.

Skills

Product design leadership

Electrical connector design

Mechanical aptitude

DFMEA/FEA knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering

Job description

Molex is seeking a Senior Product Design Engineer to spearhead the development of core technologies for automotive connector products. You will guide projects from concept to validation, ensuring manufacturability, cost-effectiveness, and high quality.

You will mentor engineers, drive analytical studies, manage design blocks, and collaborate with Product Management to align roadmaps with customer needs; travel ~10% is expected.