Field Application Engineer (FAE)

Job Title: Field Application Engineer (FAE)

Location: Dallas, TX or Austin, TX(Metro Area)

Travel: 30–40% across North America to support on-site customer engagements

Salary: Base salary + Bonus + Company Car (compensation will vary based on experience)

As a Field Application Engineer, you will serve as the technical interface between Molex and key ODM and data center customers, driving design-in and design-win activity across high-speed copper, power and fiber interconnect solutions.

In this role, you’ll partner directly with customer engineering teams to solv complex system challenges, influence next-generation designs, and accelerate adoption of Molex solutions in datacom, cloud, and hyperscale environments. You will have direct visibility to customer roadmaps and play a key role in shaping how Molex technologies are applied in real-world systems.

You’ll join Molex’s Global Sales Enablement team, which sits at the center of how we build capability across our global sales organization. As part of our growing Datacom & Specialty Solutions (DSS) business, this team partners closely with engineering, product management, and commercial leaders to accelerate customer adoption of advanced interconnect solutions across hyperscale, cloud, and data center markets. Guided by our company Principle Based Management® (PBM®),  philosophy, we focus on creating long-term value by investing in our people, developing capability, and empowering individuals to apply their knowledge to solve complex customer challenges and drive meaningful business impact.

• Drive design-in and design-win activity with ODM and data center customers
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customer engineering teams, influencing system architecture and connector selection
• Partner with Sales, Product Management, and Signal Integrity teams to deliver optimized interconnect solutions
• Support integration and troubleshooting of connectors, cables, and high-speed interconnect systems
• Identify and develop new application opportunities aligned to customer roadmaps and emerging technologies
• Translate customer feedback into in