Lead Systems Integration Engineer – High-Speed Cable

Molex; Harrisburg (Dauphin County); On-site; USD 120,000 - 280,000; Full time

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Job summary

Molex understands the need for fast, reliable high‑speed interconnects and seeks an experienced Systems Integration Engineer to lead hardware validation for ACC and AEC cable assemblies with embedded PCAs. You will drive PCA bring-up, signal integrity, and interoperability across hardware, firmware, and networking teams.

You will own validation strategy, mentor engineers, and partner with customers to ensure robust interoperability in lab and field environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Electrical or Computer Engineering or related field.
• Experience validating PCB-based active interconnects or embedded hardware systems.
• Hands-on lab debug, instrumentation, and system bring-up.

Responsibilities

• Lead bringup and validation of ACC/AEC cable assemblies with embedded PCAs.
• Validate DSP, retimer, and equalizer-based designs against electrical, functional, and interoperability requirements.
• Assess PCA behavior within the cable module including power, resets, control interfaces, and signal integrity impacts.
• Validate system-level interactions between cable PCAs and switches, NICs, and host platforms.
• Lead investigation of interoperability issues involving active cable PCAs.
• Perform deep lab debug across PBCA hardware, embedded firmware, signal integrity, and link training layers.
• Drive rootcause analysis for link failures, marginal performance, powerup issues, and qualification escapes.
• Review PBCA schematics, layouts, and design tradeoffs impacting signal integrity, power, thermals, and reliability.
• Evaluate how PBCA design decisions affect interoperability across vendor platforms.
• Define validation strategies and best practices specific to PCA-based cable modules.
• Capability to interpret schematics, layouts.
• Familiarity with PCB tools like Cadence Allegro, Raspberry Pi and STM debuggers.

Skills

PCAbased active interconnects

Embedded hardware systems

Lab debug instrumentation

Root cause analysis

Technical communication

Cross-team collaboration

Networking interfaces

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering

Tools

Cadence Allegro

Raspberry Pi debugger

STM debuggers

Job description

Molex understands the need for fast, reliable high‑speed interconnects and seeks an experienced Systems Integration Engineer to lead hardware validation for ACC and AEC cable assemblies with embedded PCAs. You will drive PCA bring-up, signal integrity, and interoperability across hardware, firmware, and networking teams.

You will own validation strategy, mentor engineers, and partner with customers to ensure robust interoperability in lab and field environments.