Your Job
Our Micro Solutions Semiconductor products team is looking for a Field Applications Engineer. This person will be responsible for collaborating with customers to ensure the easy adoption and design in our mmWave RFIC products and be the liaison between Molex engineering teams and customers.
This is a customer facing role is critical to the success of the product launches and ensuring success in the market. The successful candidate will thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
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.
What You Will Do
Pre- and Post-Sales Activities:
- Work with customers to understand their system requirements, applications and constraints, to design and simulate optimal Electromagnetic Channels for High-Speed Interface solutions using Molex’s 60GHz mmWave technology for Contactless Connectors.
- Characterization of dielectric materials for various customers at EHF frequencies to determine material properties for use in design of waveguides and absorbers to minimize signal impairments such as channel insertion loss and crosstalk from adjacent channel.
- Work with mechanical engineers to design 3-D printed housings and alignment structures to help create robust customer products.
- Design, characterization, optimization and development of novel antennas in mm Wave frequencies to improve performance and realize specific radiation patterns.
- Design and simulate EM Channels (waveguides and absorbers) for Reference Designs and Proofs of Concept.
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- Masters degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent.
- At least 4 years of systems design, hardware product validation and characterization experience for consumer/enterprise applications.
- Expert-level familiarity with Industry-Standard EDA Tools for Antenna Design and EM simulations.
- Some knowledge preferred about the Protocol and Electrical (Physical and Data Link Layer) levels of various High-Speed Multi-Giga-Bit Interfaces, including: USB3.x, USB2.0; GigaBit Ethernet, DisplayPort; HDMI; MIPI/CSI.
- Extensive laboratory experience with oscilloscopes, VNAs, JBERTs, TDRs, etc., for RF, Mixed-Signal and High-Speed Digital measurements: BER, Jitter and s-parameter measurements.
- Experience with some aspects of Power Distribution, Signal and Power Integrity, Thermal Management.
- Sufficient understanding of Mechanical Design issues to be able to work with external and internal mechanical engineers to create robust products.
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Hiring Philosophy
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Who We Are
As a Koch company, Molex is a leading supplier of connectors and interconnect components, driving innovation in electronics and supporting industries from automotive to health care and consumer to data communications. The thousands of innovators who work for Molex have made us a global electronics leader. Our experienced people, groundbreaking products and leading-edge technologies help us deliver a wider array of solutions to more markets than ever before.
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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.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, all offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please visit the following website for additional information: http://www.kochcareers.com/doc/Everify.pdf
