Your Job
As a Field Application Engineer (FAE) you will be part of our projects team supporting an OEM at their site several days a week and then in our office when you are not at the client site. You will participate in Customer’s engineering activities; communicate with the Program Team and proactively respond to the Customer’s needs understanding the impact of vehicle structures and interfaces on High-Speed Connectors performance. This will include NPI (New Product introduction), VA/VE Activities, Plant trial runs, Failure Root Cause Analysis and Quality Corrective Actions. A key function of this role is to promote and secure new design wins for high-speed products and technology tied to our Connected Mobility Solution Business Unit.

What You Will Do

• Represent Customer’s interests and position on program issues; manage Customer’s programs and system requirements. 
• Coordinate/lead/participate in Customer engineering meetings and internal team meetings associated with Customer projects and represent Molex at Customer meetings including PDE, Sales and Project Management Team meetings. 
• Work closely with Customer testing team, efficiently plan and negotiate required 
• electrical / mechanical and environmental testing requirements. 
• Prepare and issue Customer meeting minutes; prepare and present timely responses to action items. 
• Work with Customers plants to ensure program, breakpoints and launch are 
• achieved per plan. 
• Assist in the creation and review of project timelines and recommend actions to 
• ensure Customer deliverables are met per awarded timeline. 
• Assist Customer to define system requirements; resolve system issues; work with 
• respective “owners”; initiate change requests. 
• Participate in FMEA process; recommend additional development and testing 
• activities as necessary. 
• Coordinate and participate in engineering studies and experiments at the Customer’s assembly plants including SI measurements, EMI/EMC measurements, insertion/retention force, and other related tests. 
• Support troubleshooting activities associated with validation testing failures of cable assemblies, and warranty return. 
• Support engineering proposals for simplified validation testing based on engineering simulations and analyses. 
• Coordinate communication of engineering design studies between Molex Engineering and Customer 
• Knowledge sharing and collaboration with other Molex FAE’s 
• Make recommendations for improvement of interconnect systems and solutions, resolving customer potential or current issues.  
• Assist Product Marketing in providing insightful information on competition solutions reviews, customer system and processes. 
• Develop supporting documents / application notes for customers. 

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelors` Degree or higher in Mechanical , Electrical or Mechatronics Engineering or related field. 
•  Minimum 5 years relevant engineering experience within the electronics industry (especially with a foreign company). 
• Good communication skills internally within Molex Group and externally towards Customers and suppliers. 
• Ability to travel to customer facilities and other Molex facilities, including some international travel. 
• Computer skills: Power point, Excel.