Koch Industries

Solutions Technologist

Koch Industries • $200K — $250K *
Austin, TX 78745In-Person
Telecommunications & Hardware
Less than 5 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Electrical, Computer, Mechanical, or related discipline)
  • Experience in customer-facing technical roles like engineering or technical account management
  • Ability to collaborate in a global, cross-functional environment
  • Strong technical judgment and communication skills
  • Willingness to travel up to ~50%.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a senior technical authority for high-speed copper solutions during early architecture definition phases
  • Demonstrate and communicate Molex's advantages in copper technologies linked to data center requirements
  • Capture, synthesize, and prioritize voice-of-customer inputs into actionable product guidance
  • Identify and grow new business opportunities with strategic customers
  • Develop understanding of enterprise and hyperscale ecosystems, including competitive solutions
  • Monitor market dynamics and technology inflection points to guide business priorities
  • Represent Molex at industry conferences and forums to strengthen brand presence.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision insurance
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts
  • Life insurance and disability coverage
  • Retirement plan options
  • Paid vacation and time off
  • Educational assistance
  • Infertility assistance and paid parental/adoption leave.
Full Job Description
Solutions Technologist, Technical Account Manager

We are expanding within our Copper Solutions Business Unit and seeking a Solutions Technologist, Technical Account Manager to join our Enterprise Products team. This role is intended for a technically deep, commercially astute professional who creates value by influencing customer architecture decisions, shaping product strategy, and strengthening Molex's long-term comparative advantage in high-speed copper interconnect solutions.

The Solutions Technologist, Technical Account Manager operates at the intersection of customer systems architecture, product development, and market strategy , with a mandate to engage early, think long-term, and translate insight into sustained business growth-particularly within hyperscale and enterprise data center ecosystems.

What You Will Do
  • Serve as a senior technical and architectural authority for high-speed enterprise copper interconnect solutions, engaging customers during early architecture definition, system trade studies, and development cycles where design decisions have the greatest long-term impact.
  • Demonstrate and communicate Molex's comparative advantages across next-generation copper technologies, clearly linking performance, manufacturability, scalability, and total system value to evolving hyperscale and enterprise data center requirements.
  • Create value through customer insight by capturing, synthesizing, and prioritizing voice-of-customer (VOC) inputs and translating them into clear, actionable guidance for product platforms, portfolio evolution, and technology roadmaps.
    • Partner closely with Product Management, Engineering, and Marketing to ensure Molex's development investments are aligned with high-value customer problems and long-term market opportunities.
  • Proactively identify and grow new business opportunities by engaging strategic customers, cultivating targeted technical relationships, and positioning Molex early within customer architectures where design influence and switching costs are highest.
  • Develop a strong understanding of the broader enterprise and hyperscale ecosystem , including customer roadmaps, application trends, competitive solutions, and emerging architectural challenges, enabling informed recommendations and higher-quality strategic decisions.
    • Monitor and interpret market dynamics, competitive activity, and technology inflection points to help guide business priorities and resource allocation.
  • Represent Molex as a technical thought partner at industry conferences, trade shows, and technical forums, strengthening Molex's credibility, brand presence, and influence within the enterprise data center community.


Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related discipline).
  • Demonstrated experience in customer-facing technical roles , such as engineering, business development, field applications engineering (FAE), technical account management, or similar positions that require translating complex technical concepts into customer value.
  • Proven ability to operate effectively in a global, cross-functional environment , collaborating with product management, engineering, manufacturing, and commercial teams to drive aligned outcomes.
  • Strong technical judgment and communication skills , with the ability to engage credibly with customer engineering teams while clearly articulating trade-offs, risks, and value.
  • Willingness to travel up to ~50% , primarily to customer sites in Silicon Valley, Austin, and Denver, with additional domestic or international travel as required to support strategic customer engagements.


Preferred Qualifications
  • Working knowledge of high-speed interconnect technologies , including copper connectors, cable assemblies, and related signal integrity, mechanical, and system-level considerations.
  • Experience developing and communicating differentiated value propositions , aligning technical capabilities to customer architectures, performance requirements, and business priorities.
  • Familiarity with data center and enterprise computing applications , including compute, networking, accelerator-centric systems, and/or ASIC development and system architecture.
  • Understanding of product lifecycle concepts , such as roadmap development, platform strategy, or go-to-market planning; background in product management or technical marketing is a plus.


For this role, we anticipate paying $200,000 - $250,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

About Koch Industries

Koch Industries, Inc. is an American privately-held multinational conglomerate corporation based in Wichita, Kansas. Its subsidiaries are involved in the manufacturing, refining, and distribution of petroleum, chemicals, energy, fiber, intermediates and polymers, minerals, fertilizers, pulp and paper, chemical technology equipment, ranching, finance, commodities trading, and investing. Koch owns Infor, Invista, Georgia-Pacific, Molex, Flint Hills Resources, Koch Pipeline, Koch Fertilizer, Koch Minerals, Matador Cattle Company, i360, and Guardian Industries. The firm employs 120,000 people in 60 countries, with about half of its business in the United States. The company is the largest non-Canadian landowner in the Athabasca oil sands. With annual revenues of $110 billion by 2014, the company is the largest privately held company in the United States. In 2007, it was ranked as the largest privately held company. If Koch Industries had been a public company in 2013, it would have ranked 17th in the Fortune 500. The company was founded by its namesake, Fred C. Koch, in 1940 after he developed an innovative crude oil refining process. Fred C. Koch died in 1967 and his majority interest in the company was split amongst his four sons. In June 1983, after a bitter legal and boardroom battle, the stakes of Frederick R. Koch and William "Bill" Koch were bought out for $1.1 billion and Charles Koch and David Koch became majority owners in the company. Charles owns 42% of the company; trusts for the benefit of Elaine Tettemer Marshall and Elaine's children, Preston Marshall and E. Pierce Marshall Jr., own 16% of the company. The heirs of David Koch, who died on August 23, 2019, own the balance, 42%, of the corporation.
Learn more about Koch Industries
Industry
Energy & Utilities
Founded
1940
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