Senior Copper Interconnect Architect (Data Center)

Molex; Lisle (IL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision plan

Paid vacation

Job summary

Molex is expanding its Copper Solutions Business Unit and seeks a System Architect for the Enterprise Products team in Illinois. You will influence customer architectures, shape product strategy, and guide long-term roadmaps across enterprise data center ecosystems.

The role bridges customer engagements, product development, and market strategy, with travel up to 25% to customer sites and strategic engagements. A hands-on, technically strong communicator will thrive here.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• Significant experience in hardware design, systems architecture for high-performance systems.
• Experience in a customer-facing technical role translating complex concepts into customer value.
• Ability to collaborate across product management, engineering, manufacturing, and commercial teams.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior technical and architectural resource for high-speed enterprise copper interconnect solutions, engaging customers during early architecture definition, system trade studies, and development cycles when design decisions have the greatest long-term impact.
• Communicate Molex’s advantages across next-generation copper technologies by connecting performance, manufacturability, scalability, and total system value to evolving cloud, hyperscale, and enterprise data center applications.
• Turn customer insight into action by gathering and prioritizing voice-of-customer (VOC) input, then partnering with Product Management and Engineering to guide product platforms and technology roadmaps.
• Identify new opportunities by engaging strategic customers, building technical relationships, and positioning Molex early in customer architecture decisions.
• Maintain a broad understanding of the enterprise and hyperscale ecosystem—including customer roadmaps, application trends, competitive activity, and technology inflection points that can guide strategic decisions.
• Represent Molex as a technical thought partner at industry conferences, trade shows, and technical forums, strengthening Molex’s presence in the enterprise data center community.

Skills

Hardware design

Systems architecture

Customer-facing role

Cross-functional collaboration

Clear communication

Travel willingness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Job description

Molex is expanding its Copper Solutions Business Unit and seeks a System Architect for the Enterprise Products team in Illinois. You will influence customer architectures, shape product strategy, and guide long-term roadmaps across enterprise data center ecosystems.

The role bridges customer engagements, product development, and market strategy, with travel up to 25% to customer sites and strategic engagements. A hands-on, technically strong communicator will thrive here.