Your Job
Molex is seeking a PCB Design Engineer to enhance the PCB design process to optimize cost, efficiency, signal integrity (SI) performance, and manufacturability. You will be working with internal and external customers while also working closely with external suppliers.
The PCB Design Engineer will design, review, and validate board designs to meet all the requirements for each individual board. You will coordinate with the Molex global SI, hardware, mechanical, and manufacturing team to verify the board meets all requirements for all internal Molex groups. You will also work with the supplier fabrication houses to optimize designs for cost and manufacturing speed.
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.
Molex's Copper Solutions Business Unit (CSBU) is a global team that works together to deliver exceptional products to worldwide telecommunication and data center customers. CSBU is one of the most highly technically advanced business units within Molex. Our engineering teams design cutting edge solutions for high-speed, high-density products that maximize speed, signal integrity and efficiency.
What You Will Do
- Design new boards for use in connectors or cables either from scratch or off an existing design
- Design new testing boards to measure and validate connector and cable performance
- Work with other Molex groups to optimize the design for performance, cost, and manufacturing
- Work closely with supplier PCB fabrication houses to optimize designs by answering engineering questions and implementing them into our designs
- Recommend changes in designs or procedures to improve designs, efficiency, and cost
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- B.E./B.Tech Degree in Electrical or Electronics Engineering
- 1+ years in high-speed PCB design
- Experience in designing and validating high speed digital, analog, and mixed signal PCBs
- Good knowledge of electronic devices and circuits
- Demonstrate ability in problem solving, sound judgment, and leadership
- Good verbal and written skills
- Provide effective documentation for engineering processes, layout, checklists, fabrication, and deviation reports
- Interaction with PCB suppliers to implement low cost and innovative technology
- Experienced in ECAD/EDA tools such as Allegro PCB editor, Orcad Capture, CAM350, Mentor graphics PADS, GerbTool, Polar Impedance Calculator
- Good knowledge in IPC PCB design guidelines
- Experience in component selection and validation
- Experience in participating in design reviews with internal/external customers
- An understanding of the causes of SI/EMC/EMI/ESD problems in electronic circuits and best practice methods employed to overcome these
- Technical expertise to handle projects independently
Who We Are
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
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.
