Field Applications Engineer AI/Datacom Solutions

Molex; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Molex is seeking a Field Application Engineer (FAE) to lead and resolve technical barriers in designing Molex connectors, cables, and solutions for Infotech customers. You will drive technical engagements, uncover new opportunities, and secure design wins for high-speed copper products tied to Datacom & Specialty Solutions.

You will collaborate with customer engineering, sales, and product teams, develop demos, and provide customer-facing technical content.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical/Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Physics or related field.
• Minimum 3 years' relevant engineering experience within the electronics industry.
• Experience directly interacting with customers.
• Experience managing and leading projects, dynamically prioritizing assignments, and working independently.
• Experience in one or more of the following areas: Optics, High-speed Copper Backplane, PCIe, Signal Integrity, Mechanical/Thermal Modeling.

Responsibilities

• Support customer engineering contacts and the Molex sales team to secure new design wins and a convertible Salesforce pipeline that leads to profitable year-over-year growth.
• Establish strategic, and differentiated, technical relationships with key engineering and SI contacts with the customer.
• Work closely with customer development/process/reliability engineers in resolving any technical issues for design-in of High Speed I/O, Backplane / BTB / Storage Connectors / Cables as well as other copper solutions.
• Provide innovative solutions to customer application opportunities utilizing the broad portfolio of Molex offerings and assist the Account Management team in the proposal of those solutions to customer contacts.
• Knowledge sharing and collaboration with other Molex FAE's in the Infotech/Datacom space.
• Communication and alignment with the other functional groups internal to Molex including Product Management, Global Sales, Advanced Development, Signal Integrity, etc.
• Make recommendations for improvement of interconnect systems and solutions, resolving customer potential or current issues.
• Assist Product Marketing in providing insightful information on competition solution reviews, customer systems and processes
• Develop supporting documents/application notes for customers
• Collaborate and develop demos and customer-facing presentations on technical concepts

Skills

Customer interaction

Project management

Independent work

Optics

High-speed interconnects

Education

Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical/Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Physics or related field

Tools

NX CAD

Job description

Molex is seeking a Field Application Engineer (FAE) to lead and resolve technical barriers in designing Molex connectors, cables, and solutions for Infotech customers. You will drive technical engagements, uncover new opportunities, and secure design wins for high-speed copper products tied to Datacom & Specialty Solutions.

You will collaborate with customer engineering, sales, and product teams, develop demos, and provide customer-facing technical content.