Senior/ Product Design Engineer - Connectors Industry

Zohorecruit; Johor Bahru; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Zohorecruit in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, seeks a Senior/Staff Product Design Engineer to lead the development of connector solutions from concept to validation. You will translate customer needs into robust drawings and specifications, perform design analyses, and ensure designs meet manufacturability and quality standards.

The role requires 7+ years in product design with strong CAD/CAE skills (CREO, ANSYS) and experience in interconnects.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of product design development experience with engineering and design principles.
• Experience in interconnects design industry (SFF-TA-1001/1002, PCIe CEM) desirable.
• Proficient with mechanical design, solid mechanics, and tolerance analysis.
• Familiar with CAD/CAE tools: CREO and ANSYS structural analysis.
• Knowledge of engineering drawing standards.
• Exposure to connector application, plastics, insert-molding, stamping processes preferred.

Responsibilities

• Participate in development of new products and improvements focusing on connector solutions.
• Design and develop quality products ensuring manufacturability with other engineering functions.
• Translate customer requirements into product drawings and specifications; perform design analysis and verification.
• Ensure designs validated per customer requirements and industry standards.
• Lead projects, define and reconcile technical DFM with Process Design team.
• Be part of an integrated team to anticipate and resolve customer dissatisfaction.
• Improve product designs to reduce manufacturing cost.

Skills

Product design

Tolerance analysis

DFMEA

Project leadership

Interconnects design

CAD/CAE

Creo

ANSYS

Education

Bachelor / Master Degree in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

CREO

ANSYS

Pro/Engineer

Job description

Johor Bahru, Malaysia | Posted on 09/24/2026

1. Participate in development of new products and product improvements with disciplined focus in product engineering design of connector solution.

2. Design and develop quality product and ensuring manufacturability with other engineering functions involved in product development.

3. Perform product design activity which includes translating customer requirements into product drawings and product specification, design analysis and verification, tolerance analysis, DFMEA, etc.

4. Ensure product designs are validated per customer requirements, respecting international industry standards.

5. Take Project Leadership role, define and reconcile technical DFM with Process Design team

6. Responsible for product engineering of responsible product line; and be part of integrated team anticipating and resolving customer dissatisfaction.

7. Improve product designs to bring about reduction in manufacturing cost.

Requirement

1. Bachelor / Master Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing or other relevant discipline

2. Minimum 7 years of product design development experience with excellent grasp of Engineering and Design principles.

3. Experience in interconnects design industry (Eg: SFF-TA-1001/1002, PCIe CEM) is desirable. Senior/Staff position requires excellent design leadership skills and relevant product life-cycle knowledge.

4. Proficient with Mechanical Design, Solid Mechanics theory, Tolerance Analysis and its application to product design

5. Familiar with CAD/CAE tool: Pro-Engineer CREO & ANSYS Structural Analysis

6. Familiar with engineering drawing industry standards

7. Working knowledge of connector application, plastic technology, insert-molding, stamping processes is preferred.