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FAE Engineer

Molex
life insurance, parental leave
United States, Illinois, Lisle
2222 Wellington Court (Show on map)
May 23, 2025
Your Job We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated FEA Engineer to join our team, performing structural simulations and tests for datacom interconnect products. This role requires design, optimization, and characterization of innovative high-speed interconnect products for datacom applications. In this role you will have the opportunity to perform advanced FEA simulations, and evaluations on Molex products. Our Team At Molex, we create connections for life by enabling technologies that transform the future and improve lives. With a 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. Our Datacom and Specialty Solutions (DSS) team specializes in providing signal integrity solutions essential for building reliable communications equipment, catering to telecommunications, datacom, hyperscalers, cloud, data center, and storage applications. We continue to innovate to meet the demands of next-generation markets. What You Will Do Conduct and coordinate nonlinear structural finite element analysis (FEA) for short fiber reinforced plastic & copper alloy-based high-speed interconnect systems, through Hypermesh & Abaqus tools or ANSYS tools. Deliver reliable FEA results in a timely manner and effectively communicate them with product design engineers through clear written and verbal presentations. Provide design recommendations to improve and optimize product structural performance based on FEA results, ensuring that design targets are met. Participate in the correlation of CAE simulations to real-world tests and improve existing modeling methods as needed. Develop new FEA techniques and modeling methods, working both independently and collaboratively with vendors to improve their accuracy and efficiency. Lead the development of new products and oversee the activities of global teams, ensuring alignment with engineering management priorities. Publish technical papers and patents. Who You Are: B.S. Degree in Mechanical or Related Engineering Discipline. 1+ years' experience with nonlinear implicit and explicit finite element analysis. 1+ years of ABAQUS or ANSYS FEA simulation software experience. 1+ years' experience with parametric CAD systems (UG NX, CATIA, SolidWorks, etc.) Good verbal and written English communication skills that demonstrate the ability to express complex technical concepts clearly and concisely. What Will Put You Ahead: M.S. or Ph.D. Degree in Mechanical Engineering or Related Engineering Discipline. 3+ years' experience with Altair (Hyperworks, Simlab) family products. 3+ years' experience with CAE modeling applications in predicting nonlinear structural behavior on short fiber reinforced plastics & metals. Experience with explicit solver, e.g., LS-DYNA, Abaqus Explicit. Experience with molding simulation software, e.g., Moldflow, Moldex-3D, Digimat, Converse, etc. Experience with Python scripting & CAE process automation tools (modeFrontier, Isight, optiSLang, etc.) Established records of invention such as patent ownership or technical paper authorship. For this role, we anticipate paying $85,000- $110,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form. 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 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. 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 here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aqui, or tu).