Field Application Engineer

Molex Printed Circuit Solutions is looking for an experienced Field Application Engineer (FAE) to support our customers across Europe in automotive, medical, industrial and other markets.

We are looking for someone with a strong background in PCBA and flexible circuit FPCA design, who understands how electronic products are specified, developed, and manufactured, and enjoys applying that knowledge directly with customers.

You will be the technical interface between our European customers, BDMs, Sales teams and global PCS engineering and manufacturing experts. You will understand customer applications and requirements, challenge designs where needed, evaluate technical feasibility, and help develop competitive and manufacturable solutions.

What You Will Do In Your Role

• Customer Application Support: Support multiple European customer projects from initial inquiry through specification alignment and feasibility, to prototypes and qualification. Understand applications, technical challenges and requirements, and drive technical topics and next steps with customers and PCS teams.
• Technical Feasibility & DFM: Evaluate feasibility and technical risks against PCS capabilities, and recommend improvements related to design, cost, performance, reliability and manufacturability.
• Technical Problem Solving: Support investigation and resolution of design, prototype and qualification issues together with customers and PCS engineering teams.
• Facilitation & Communication: Facilitate technical discussions, design reviews, workshops and cross-functional meetings. Translate complex engineering topics into clear recommendations, decisions and actions.
• Standards & Requirements: Understand and apply relevant IPC standards, customer-specific requirements and applicable industry and quality requirements, including IATF and PPAP requirements where relevant.

The Experience You Will Bring

• Engineering Experience: Bachelor's degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering or a related technical discipline, with 5+ years of hands-on experience in PCB/FPC design, product development and/or application engineering.
• PCBA/FPCA Expertise: Strong practical understanding of PCB/FPC design, assembly and manufacturing, including stack-ups, materials, design rules, tolerances, controlled impedance and manufacturing limitations.
• EDA Tools: Experience with Altium Designer, Cadence or comparable EDA tools; familiarity with 3D CAD tools such as NX or SolidWorks is an advantage.
• Customer Communication & International Collaboration: Confident communicating directly with customers and asking the right technical questions. Comfortable working across international Sales, BDM, engineering and manufacturing teams across Europe, the USA and Asia.
• Languages: Fluent English required; German and/or French is highly desirable.
• Travel: Willingness to travel typically 25–35% across Europe, depending on customer and business needs.

What We Offer

• A hands-on, customer-facing engineering role within Molex Printed Circuit Solutions, working across automotive, medical, industrial and other markets.
• Exposure to rigid and flexible electronic solutions, printed electronics and advanced manufacturing technologies.
• Direct collaboration with global engineering and manufacturing specialists, with the opportunity to influence technical solutions from first customer discussions through feasibility, prototyping and industrialisation.
• A home-office-based position in Germany with European customer responsibility.

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.

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.

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.

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