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This role is suited to a technically strong, commercially aware professional who can influence customer architecture decisions, shape product strategy, and strengthen Molex’s long-term advantage in high-speed copper interconnect solutions.\nThe position operates at the intersection of customer systems architecture, product development, and market strategy. It requires early customer engagement, long-term thinking, and the ability to translate technical and market insight into sustainable growth across enterprise data center ecosystems.\n\nOur Team\nAt Molex, we create connections for life by enabling technologies that transform the future and improve lives. With presence in more than 40 countries, we offer a complete range of connectivity products, services, and solutions across various industries, including data communications, medical, industrial, automotive, and consumer electronics.\nOur Datacom and Specialty Solutions (DSS) team develops connectivity solutions for telecommunications, cloud, hyperscale, data center, and storage platforms. We continue to innovate to meet the needs of next-generation markets.\nAs part of the Molex CTO organization, you will evaluate how emerging interconnect technologies can be successfully integrated into advanced computing systems. Your work will help shape technology investments, reference architectures, and future product roadmaps.\n\nWhat You Will Do\nServe as a senior technical and architectural resource for high-speed enterprise copper interconnect solutions, engaging customers during early architecture definition, system trade studies, and development cycles when design decisions have the greatest long-term impact.\nCommunicate Molex’s advantages across next-generation copper technologies by connecting performance, manufacturability, scalability, and total system value to evolving cloud, hyperscale, and enterprise data center applications.\nTurn customer insight into action by gathering and prioritizing voice-of-customer (VOC) input, then partnering with Product Management and Engineering to guide product platforms and technology roadmaps.\nIdentify new opportunities by engaging strategic customers, building technical relationships, and positioning Molex early in customer architecture decisions.\nMaintain a broad understanding of the enterprise and hyperscale ecosystem-including customer roadmaps, application trends, competitive activity, and technology inflection points that can guide strategic decisions.\nRepresent Molex as a technical thought partner at industry conferences, trade shows, and technical forums, strengthening Molex’s presence in the enterprise data center community.\nWhat You Can Expect\nTechnical ownership of future connectivity architectures.\nCollaboration with silicon partners and internal product teams.\nAccess to advanced simulation, measurement, and prototyping capabilities.\nOpportunities to evaluate early-stage technologies and influence product decisions.\nBroad visibility across the CTO organization, engineering teams, and business units.\nWho You Are (Basic Qualifications)\nBachelor’s degree in engineering or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.\nSignificant experience in hardware design, systems architecture, or a related field for high-performance systems.\nExperience in a customer-facing technical role, such as engineering, field applications engineering, technical account management, or a comparable position, where complex technical concepts are translated into customer value.\nAbility to work effectively across functions and regions, collaborating with product management, engineering, manufacturing, and commercial teams to achieve shared outcomes.\nSound technical judgment and clear communication skills, with the ability to engage customer engineering teams and explain trade-offs, risks, and value.\nWillingness to travel up to approximately 25%, primarily to customer sites in Silicon Valley and Austin, Texas, with additional domestic or international travel as needed for strategic customer engagements.\n\nWhat Will Put You Ahead\nKnowledge of high-speed interconnect technologies, such as copper connectors, cable assemblies, signal integrity, mechanical design, or system-level integration. Relevant experience from adjacent technologies or industries may also be valuable.\nExperience developing and communicating differentiated value propositions that connect technical capabilities with customer architecture, performance needs, and business priorities.\nFamiliarity with data center or enterprise computing applications, such as compute, networking, accelerator-based systems, silicon development, or system architecture.\nUnderstanding of product lifecycle processes, including roadmap development, platform strategy, and product planning.\nFor this role, we anticipate paying $140,000 - $225,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.\nAt 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.\n\nHiring Philosophy\nAll 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 here.\n\nWho We Are\nAs 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.\nAt 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.\n\nOur Benefits\nOur 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.\nAdditionally, 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.\n\nEqual Opportunities\nEqual 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 here for additional information. 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