Director, Technology Development

Your Job The Director, Technology Development will have the ability to evaluate the Datacenter/AI rack market and customers, recognize trends and set forth a plan to penetrate business opportunities/applications that will deploy a portfolio of end to end interconnectivity solutions. This individual will define the customer engagement strategy with engineering teams and work with the organization for technology roadmap vision and execution. Responsibilities will also include customer and industry engagements to drive voice of customer intelligence to our advance development teams.

Our Team Molex possesses a rich heritage in the high speed connectivity industry. We provide the highest performing and field-proven copper and optical communication solutions from components, passive and active modules to integrated line-cards. Our team is dedicated to continuous innovation in both copper & optical component function integration, miniaturization, and manufacturing automation. We provide cutting edge technology with a comprehensive mechanical, electrical and software integration capabilities enable us to serve the needs of high-density, high-bandwidth, and flexible networks.

What You Will Do

• Engage customer engineering teams supporting both networking and compute hardware specific to host (switch) to module (NIC card) cabling applications.
• Identifies product and application trends/opportunities to drive next gen product roadmaps.
• Engage in technical & technological sessions with key customers and internal teams.
• Support architecture engineering to customized applications.
• Establish partnerships with the industry eco system suppliers.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor degree in Engineering or related technical discipline (Mechanical, EE)
• At least 7 years of HW architecture design.
• Experience in AI Rack architectures & future roadmaps.
• Experience developing customer relationships at the leadership level
• Experience communicating across all levels of business and executive leadership presence
• Business acumen to deliver high level communication in the specified field

For this role, we anticipate paying $200,000 - $225,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form. 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 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.

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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.

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.

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