Field Application Engineer – Strategic Account

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Field Application Engineer supporting strategic European electronics accounts for Molex, a global connector and interconnect supplier. Driving technical demand, design wins, and profitable growth across connectivity, electrification, and power infrastructure applications.

Responsibilities:

  • Serve as the dedicated Field Application Engineer for a European Strategic Account, supporting customer engineering teams in France and across relevant European development sites
  • Drive technical demand creation by identifying new application opportunities, influencing design decisions, and promoting Molex connectivity, power distribution, and infrastructure solutions
  • Build differentiated technical relationships with customer engineering, R&D, and system architecture stakeholders
  • Work with Product Management teams and the Worldwide Account Manager to translate customer needs into growth plans and account strategies
  • Resolve technical and engineering barriers during design-in, development, and qualification phases
  • Identify opportunities in electrification, power distribution systems, data centre infrastructure, and other strategic customer programs
  • Develop, qualify, and manage a Salesforce pipeline of design-in opportunities
  • Provide customer insights, competitive intelligence, and application feedback to Product Management, Business Units, Advanced Development, and Sales teams
  • Collaborate with Molex FAEs and internal technical experts to share knowledge, align solutions, and accelerate customer success

Requirements:

  • Experience in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline
  • Experience in field application engineering, technical sales, product engineering, or customer-facing engineering within electronics, interconnect, electrification, power distribution, industrial automation, or related industrial markets
  • Ability to engage directly with customer engineering teams to understand applications, solve technical challenges, and influence design decisions
  • Experience collaborating across sales, engineering, product management, and global account teams while managing multiple priorities
  • Commercial understanding of demand creation, design wins, opportunity conversion, and profitable growth
  • Fluent communication skills in French and English
  • Willingness to travel approximately 60%
  • Experience within the electronics industry and/or manufacturing sector is advantageous
  • Experience supporting data centre infrastructure, electrification, power distribution, critical power, or industrial automation applications is advantageous
  • Experience using Salesforce and SAP is advantageous
  • Additional European language capabilities are advantageous

Benefits:

  • Employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better
  • The company seeks to enable the best work environment for individual work and personal needs