Field Application Engineer

Your Job

Molex is seeking a dynamic and proactive Field Application Engineer (FAE) to lead, promote, and resolve all technical and engineering related barriers in designing Molex connectors, cables, and solutions for Infotech customers. You will not only drive technical engagements with customers in targeted areas of growth but also uncover new opportunities while developing strong relationships with customer engineering. A key function of this role is to promote and secure new design wins for high-speed copper products and technology tied to our Datacom & Specialty Solutions Business Unit.

Our Team

Molex creates connections for life by enabling technologies that transform the future and improve lives. With a presence in more than 40 countries, Molex offers a complete range of connectivity products, services and solutions for the data communications, medical, industrial, automotive and consumer electronics industries. Our Datacom and Specialty Solutions (DSS) team designs an extensive product line serving customers in telecommunications, datacom, hyperscalers, cloud, data center and storage applications.

What You Will Do

• 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

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

What Will Put You Ahead

For this role, we anticipate paying $130,000 - $180,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation / time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.