Global Design Engineering Leader, Enterprise Copper Solutions

Flint Hills Resources; Lisle (IL); On-site; USD 175,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Life insurance

Retirement

Job summary

The Sr. Design Engineering Manager leads the global Product Design Engineering organization for Molex's Enterprise Copper Solutions portfolio, guiding architecture, design execution, and customer-focused innovation across high-speed connectors, cables, and interconnects for AI, cloud, and data infrastructure.

Reporting across Development, Product Management, Manufacturing, Reliability, and Program Management, this role drives DFM/ DFA/ DFR practices, talent development, and strategic roadmaps

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline.
• 10+ years of engineering experience in product development.
• 10+ years of engineering leadership experience managing technical teams.
• Proven experience with electro-mechanical product design.
• Strong understanding of connector and cable assembly development, tolerance analysis, product lifecycle management, design verification, manufacturing processes, reliability engineering, and signal integrity.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a global team of Product Design Engineers supporting Enterprise CSBU products.
• Establish technical direction, engineering standards, and best practices for product design.
• Build organizational capability through talent acquisition, mentoring, succession planning, and leadership development.
• Create a culture of accountability, innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Drive engineering resource planning and portfolio prioritization.
• Own design engineering execution across connector and cable product families.
• Ensure designs meet customer, performance, cost, reliability, and manufacturability requirements.
• Drive concept generation, feasibility studies, risk assessments, and design validation.
• Champion Design for Manufacturing (DFM), Design for Assembly (DFA), and Design for Reliability (DFR) methodologies.
• Support development of next-generation Enterprise connectivity platforms including high-speed backplane connectors, NPC, CPC, high-density cable assemblies, 224G and 448G interconnect solutions.
• Partner with Advanced Development on technology incubation and transition to product platforms.
• Support strategic customer engagements with hyperscalers, networking OEMs, AI infrastructure providers, and semiconductor companies.
• Represent Molex as a senior technical leader during customer interactions.
• Partner with Product Management to align product roadmaps and engineering priorities.
• Collaborate with Development Engineering, NPI, Manufacturing Engineering, Reliability, Quality, and Supply Chain teams.
• Facilitate effective design transfers from concept through launch.
• Drive alignment between regional engineering teams in North America and Asia.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives that improve speed-to-market and development effectiveness.

Skills

Global engineering leadership

Technical direction

Product design engineering

Design for Manufacturing DFA DFR

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical/Electrical Engineering, Physics, or Materials Engineering

Master's degree in a technical field

Job description

The Sr. Design Engineering Manager leads the global Product Design Engineering organization for Molex's Enterprise Copper Solutions portfolio, guiding architecture, design execution, and customer-focused innovation across high-speed connectors, cables, and interconnects for AI, cloud, and data infrastructure.

Reporting across Development, Product Management, Manufacturing, Reliability, and Program Management, this role drives DFM/ DFA/ DFR practices, talent development, and strategic roadmaps