Field Application Engineer – Strategic Account

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in France.

📋 Description

• Act as the dedicated Field Application Engineer for a European Strategic Account, providing support to customer engineering teams in France and other relevant European development locations.

• Foster technical demand creation by recognizing new application prospects, influencing design choices, and advocating for Molex connectivity, power distribution, and infrastructure solutions.

• Establish unique technical relationships with stakeholders in customer engineering, R&D, and system architecture.

• Collaborate with Product Management teams and the Worldwide Account Manager to convert customer requirements into growth initiatives and account strategies.

• Address technical and engineering obstacles throughout the design-in, development, and qualification processes.

• Seek opportunities in electrification, power distribution systems, data center infrastructure, and other strategic customer initiatives.

• Create, qualify, and oversee a Salesforce pipeline of design-in opportunities.

• Deliver customer insights, competitive intelligence, and application feedback to Product Management, Business Units, Advanced Development, and Sales teams.

• Work alongside Molex FAEs and internal technical experts to exchange knowledge, align solutions, and enhance customer success.

⛳️ Requirements

• Background in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.

• Experience in field application engineering, technical sales, product engineering, or customer-facing engineering within electronics, interconnect, electrification, power distribution, industrial automation, or similar industrial markets.

• Capability to engage directly with customer engineering teams to comprehend applications, resolve technical issues, and influence design decisions.

• Proven experience in collaborating across sales, engineering, product management, and global account teams while juggling multiple priorities.

• Commercial awareness of demand creation, design wins, opportunity conversion, and profitable growth.

• Proficient communication skills in both French and English.

• Willingness to travel approximately 60% of the time.

• Experience in the electronics industry and/or manufacturing sector is preferred.

• Familiarity with supporting data center infrastructure, electrification, power distribution, critical power, or industrial automation applications is advantageous.

• Experience with Salesforce and SAP is considered a plus.

• Proficiency in additional European languages is a bonus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Employees are empowered to excel in their roles and enhance lives.

• The company strives to create the optimal work environment tailored to individual work and personal needs.