Field Application Engineer - Flexible Printed Circuits
 Molex | |
life insurance, parental leave
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 United States, Illinois, Naperville | |
 Nov 07, 2024 | |
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Molex brings together innovation and technology to deliver electronic solutions to customers worldwide. With a presence in more than 40 countries, Molex offers a full suite of solutions and services for many markets, including data communications, consumer electronics, industrial, automotive, commercial vehicle and medical. With today's devices trending toward smaller form factors and miniaturization, traditional printed circuit boards (PCBs) can be too rigid to accommodate evolving designs. As a leading supplier of versatile printed circuit solutions, Molex empowers customers with innovations that are small, light, and extremely adaptable. Our extensive offerings reflect a wide range of specialized substrates and technologies that help deliver excellent signal integrity, impedance control and thermal management-including PEDOT polymer, flexible silver and more. We are seeking a Field Application Engineer for our Printed Circuit Solutions (PCS) group. In this role you will develop solutions to solve customers' Flexible Printed Circuit design needs. You'll provide technical guidance to customers and internal engineering teams on optimal materials, stackups, traces (spacing, width, routing), and other design requirements. Some global responsibilities include leveraging knowledge of Molex Taiwan capabilities to drive solutions that are optimal for manufacturing. This position may be remote. What You Will Do * Work with the customer to gather Voice of the Customer (VOC) and other critical design requirements. * Review customer design inputs: Schematics, Pinouts, Signal Integrity and Power requirements and determine if the requirements are able to meet the customer's design objective. Additionally, do the inputs meet Molex Taiwan's manufacturing capabilities. * Provide design guidance to CAD resources on optimal layout for each customer design, review and approve CAD outputs. * Provide manufacturing guidance to Molex Taiwan design and process engineering teams (as required) to insure NPI designs are manufactured correctly. * Follow product development process, cooperate with cross functional team to support customer product design requirement. * Perform signal integrity measurement or simulation to analyze and support external/ internal customers. * Review costings from Molex Taiwan for accuracy before submitting to BDM for quoting. Who You Are (Basic Qualifications) * Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering * 3 or more years of Signal and Power Integrity analysis or high-speed signal and power PCB/FPC design experience * Experience laying out circuits with Allegro or Altium * Experience with SI simulation software * Ability to work with cross functional teams at customers and internally, with those teams spread out geographically around the world. (primarily US, Asia, and Europe) * Experience in creating and using FMEA's and performing DFM reviews. * Knowledge of materials and processes used in FPC fabrication. * Knowledge of IPC standards requirements and how those impact design and fabrication processes. * Knowledge of how to use lab equipment, multi-meter, spectrum analysis, oscilloscope etc. What Will Put You Ahead * 7 or more years of Signal and Power Integrity analysis or high-speed signal and power PCB/FPC design experience * Experience with HFSS simulation software * Experience with Siemens Teamcenter and Polarion * Certified IPC designer, in depth knowledge of IPC 2222 requirements * Experience with HFSS for SI analysis * Knowledge of how circuit design impacts mechanical performance of FPC circuit. * Ability to design in additional functionality beyond just the circuit design. At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy. Hiring Philosophy All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy [1] here. 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. At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our [2] business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company. 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. Equal Opportunities Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click [3] here for additional information. #LI-RL1 References Visible links 1. https://jobs.kochcareers.com/pages/culture 2. https://www.kochind.com/about/business-philosophy 3. https://www.e-verify.gov/sites/default/files/everify/posters/EVerifyParticipationPoster.pdf | |