Product Engineer

Location: Raleigh, North Carolina Department: Engineering Posted: 12/12/2025 Location Name: Raleigh

Wage: Depends on Experience

Amphenol Communications Solutions (ACS), a division of Amphenol Corporation, is a world leader in interconnect solutions for Communications, Mobile, RF, Optics, and Commercial electronics markets. Amphenol Corporation is one of the world’s largest designers and manufacturers of electrical, electronic and fiber optic connectors and interconnect systems, antennas, sensors and sensor-based products and coaxial and high-speed specialty cable. ACS has an expansive global presence in research and development, manufacturing, and sales. We design and manufacture a wide range of innovative connectors as well as cable assemblies for diverse applications including server, storage, data center, mobile, RF, networking, industrial, business equipment, and automotive.

Position: Product Engineer

Location: Raleigh, NC

Amphenol High Speed Products Group is the market leader for high speed, high bandwidth electrical connectors for the Telecom/Datacom market (Mobile Networks, Storage, Servers, Routers, Switches, etc.). Our products help to enable the electronics revolution and remain a key enabler for all the major Tier 1 OEMs globally. Our global headquarters are located in Nashua, NH and we have design, sales and manufacturing locations globally. Our team is looking for a Product Engineer. The Product Engineer would be the technical expert for one or more connector product lines responsible for planning and managing complex technical projects.

Position Summary

The Product Engineer will provide technical expertise in the design, development and manufacturing of connector products. In this cross- functional role they will also support the overall business by executing the technical aspects of the strategic plans of the organization, act as the technical liaison expert for the sales and marketing groups and provide direction to engineers and support personnel.

Responsibilities

• Maintain product quality and reliability to ensure mechanical integrity and perform failure analysis on defects from customer applications and certain manufacturing processes.
• Integrate new technologies, innovative manufacturing methods, and critical cost initiatives into aspects of process/product designs supporting new product releases.
• Manage product related documentation and specifications at the component level, the manufacturing processes, and field application performance by maintaining all aspects of the product design integrity.
• Serve as the customer focal point in support of technical product information, in-field applications and general guidance related to product performance.
• Work closely with internal and external suppliers and manufacturing personnel, supporting the development and validation of product prototypes thru pilot production, as well as interfacing with beta-site customers.
• Be responsible for the successful transition of products and processes from NPI phase to volume manufacturing into low-cost regions and regular interfacing with NPI and manufacturing engineering groups at the connector manufacturing facilities globally.
• Provide technical assistance to drafters, designers, engineers and other support personnel in order to help them perform their duties and functions.
• Support the product design effort in a mechanical capacity by developing / participating in tolerance analysis work, FEA, material evaluation efforts and failure analysis activities.
• Take part in efforts leading to new / alternate material identification and benchmarking as well as participating in development of new innovative manufacturing techniques supporting product lines.
• Actively participate / integrate with product designers in support of design reviews, component and product testing and qualification, and introduction of new products including product derivatives supporting market demands. Participate in quality investigations in order to assure product specifications.
• Participate in fixture design and in creating and managing test plans supporting the NPI process.
• Identify and facilitate a variety of project initiatives such as cost improvement, overall quality initiatives, and product performance benchmarking.
  
  

Qualifications

• BS/MS Mechanical Engineering, Electrical, Materials Science degree
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience with solid modeling tools (Pro/E), FEA tools a plus
• Ability to communicate with technical & non-technical people
• Ability to work in dynamic team environment.
• Desire to create and design new products and processes
• Knowledge of copper alloys and high-performance engineering thermoplastics would be a plus
• Basic understanding of electrical connectors
  
  

Amphenol Corporation is proud of our reputation as an excellent employer. Our focus is to provide the highest level of support and responsiveness to both our employees and our customers, the world's largest technology companies. Amphenol Corporation offers the opportunity for career growth within a global organization. We believe that Amphenol Corporation is unique in that every employee, regardless of his or her position, has the ability to positively impact the business.

Amphenol is an “Equal Opportunity Employer” - Minority/Female/Disabled/Veteran/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin. For additional company information please visit our website at https://www.amphenol-cs.com/