Field Application Engineer- Enterprise Server

Molex; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Life insurance

Paid vacation and PTO

Educational assistance

Job summary

Molex is seeking a dynamic Field Application Engineer to drive technical engagements and promote Molex connectors, cables, and other products into Enterprise Server accounts. You will lead engagements with compute, storage and networking hardware teams, gathering requirements and delivering effective design-in solutions.

Based in Houston/Austin, you will partner with Molex engineering and product management to resolve issues, propose innovative solutions, and secure new design wins for Datacom

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering or related field.
• Minimum 5 years in electronics engineering.
• Experience interfacing with customers.
• Experience leading projects and prioritizing assignments.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical support to customer engineering to promote Molex design wins.
• Establish strategic technical relationships with key engineering contacts to secure design wins.
• Foster collaborative engagements between customer teams and Molex engineering to resolve issues.
• Recommend innovative solutions using Molex portfolio to address customer challenges.
• Suggest product improvements to product management based on customer feedback.
• Assist Product Marketing with competitive insights and customer processes.

Skills

Customer interfacing

Project management

Problem solving

Strong communication

Education

Bachelor of Science in Engineering (Mechanical / Electrical / CS / Physics)

Master's degree in Electrical/Mechanical/CS/Physics

Tools

NX CAD

Job description

Field Application Engineer- Enterprise Server Accounts

Molex is seeking a dynamic and proactive Field Application Engineer (FAE) to lead, promote, and resolve all technical and engineering related barriers in designing Molex connectors, cables, and other products into electronics hardware developed at targeted Enterprise Server companies. The FAE should have experience with Compute, Storage or Networking electronic hardware and be able to drive technical engagements with customers in targeted areas of growth and uncover new opportunities for Molex product. FAE is responsible for developing and maintaining strong relationships with customer engineering to promote and secure new design wins for Molex Datacom and Specialty Solutions copper and fiber optic products.

What You Will Do

• Provide technical support to customer engineering contacts to promote and secure new design wins of Molex products at target Enterprise server, networking and storage customers.
• Establish strategic, and differentiated, technical relationships with key engineering and Signal Integrity ("SI") contacts at the customer to secure design wins and drive profitable growth at targeted customers.
• Foster collaborative technical engagements between customers' electronic hardware development teams and Molex product management and engineering teams to resolve any technical issues to facilitate the design-in of Molex products into customers' equipment.
• Recommend innovative solutions to resolve customer challenges by utilizing the broad portfolio of Molex offerings and assist the Account Management team in the proposal of those solutions to customer contacts.
• Make recommendations for improvement of Molex products to Molex product management team to resolve customer challenges or to address broader industry trends.
• Assist Product Marketing in providing insightful information on competition solutions reviews, customer systems and processes.

Requirements of the Position

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering: Mechanical / Electrical/ Computer Science, Physics or related field
• Minimum 5 years relevant engineering experience within the electronics industry
• Experience directly interfacing with customers.
• Experience in managing and leading projects, dynamically prioritizing assignments, and working independently.

What Puts You Ahead

• Houston, TX or Austin, TX based as most of the daily engagement with be in these two locations
• Master's degree in Electrical engineering, Mechanical, Computer Science, Physics or related field
• 5+ years' experience around designing, qualifying, and/or supporting high speed electrical interconnects and solutions in a server company
• Detailed in problem solving and analysis
• Solid understanding of various connectors/cables/solutions manufacturing processes
• Understanding of statistical approach in problem solving, SPC and other quality tools
• Well versed in 2D/3D CAD design tools (NX preferred)
• Understanding of ability to do chassis level design.

Our Benefits

Our benefits plan includes medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aqui, or tu).