Business Development Engineer- Enterprise High-Speed Copper Solutions

Business Development Engineer - Enterprise High-Speed Copper

We are expanding within our Copper Solutions Business Unit and seeking a Business Development Engineer (BDE) to join our Enterprise Products team. This role is intended for a technically deep, commercially astute professional who creates value by influencing customer architecture decisions, shaping product strategy, and strengthening Molex's long-term comparative advantage in high-speed copper interconnect solutions.

The BDE operates at the intersection of customer systems architecture, product development, and market strategy, with a mandate to engage early, think long-term, and translate insight into sustained business growth-particularly within hyperscale and enterprise data center ecosystems.

What You Will Do

• Serve as a senior technical and architectural authority for high-speed enterprise copper interconnect solutions, engaging customers during early architecture definition, system trade studies, and development cycles where design decisions have the greatest long-term impact.
• Demonstrate and communicate Molex's comparative advantages across next-generation copper technologies, clearly linking performance, manufacturability, scalability, and total system value to evolving hyperscale and enterprise data center requirements.
• Create value through customer insight by capturing, synthesizing, and prioritizing voice-of-customer (VOC) inputs and translating them into clear, actionable guidance for product platforms, portfolio evolution, and technology roadmaps.
• Partner closely with Product Management, Engineering, and Marketing to ensure Molex's development investments are aligned with high-value customer problems and long-term market opportunities.
• Proactively identify and grow new business opportunities by engaging strategic customers, cultivating targeted technical relationships, and positioning Molex early within customer architectures where design influence and switching costs are highest.
• Develop a strong understanding of the broader enterprise and hyperscale ecosystem, including customer roadmaps, application trends, competitive solutions, and emerging architectural challenges, enabling informed recommendations and higher-quality strategic decisions.
• Monitor and interpret market dynamics, competitive activity, and technology inflection points to help guide business priorities and resource allocation.
• Represent Molex as a technical thought partner at industry conferences, trade shows, and technical forums, strengthening Molex's credibility, brand presence, and influence within the enterprise data center community.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related discipline).
• Demonstrated experience in customer-facing technical roles, such as engineering, business development, field applications engineering (FAE), technical account management, or similar positions that require translating complex technical concepts into customer value.
• Proven ability to operate effectively in a global, cross-functional environment, collaborating with product management, engineering, manufacturing, and commercial teams to drive aligned outcomes.
• Strong technical judgment and communication skills, with the ability to engage credibly with customer engineering teams while clearly articulating trade-offs, risks, and value.
• Willingness to travel up to ~50%, primarily to customer sites in Silicon Valley, Austin, and Denver, with additional domestic or international travel as required to support strategic customer engagements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Working knowledge of high-speed interconnect technologies, including copper connectors, cable assemblies, and related signal integrity, mechanical, and system-level considerations.
• Experience developing and communicating differentiated value propositions, aligning technical capabilities to customer architectures, performance requirements, and business priorities.
• Familiarity with data center and enterprise computing applications, including compute, networking, accelerator-centric systems, and/or ASIC development and system architecture.
• Understanding of product lifecycle concepts, such as roadmap development, platform strategy, or go-to-market planning; background in product management or technical marketing is a plus.

For this role, we anticipate paying $150,000 - $200,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.