Junior Product Engineer
The Junior Product Engineer serves as a key technical interface between customers, sales, and internal engineering and product management teams for electrical connectors and cable assemblies. This role focuses on understanding customer needs, defining product requirements, providing technical and sales support, product selection assistance, and ensuring clear communication to and from our global teams to support successful customer design in's.
Amphenol Industrial Operations, headquartered in Endicott, New York with global manufacturing, sales and marketing locations, specializes in delivering a comprehensive range of high-reliability power and signal connectors along with interconnection systems designed specifically for industrial applications. Our solutions cater to diverse industrial sectors such as alternative energy, power generation and storage, rail and mass transit, process control, automotive manufacturing, heavy equipment, wireless base stations, and petrochemical industries.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Customer Engagement & Requirements Definition
- Quoting & Technical Sales Support
- Cross-Functional Coordination
- Standard Product Development Support
- Quality & Issue Resolution
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field
- 0–2 years of experience in engineering, applications engineering, or technical sales (internships included)
- Basic understanding of electrical systems (signal, power, shielding, grounding concepts)
- Familiarity with connectors, wire types, cable assemblies, and harnessing preferred
- Ability to read and interpret technical drawings and specifications
- Comfortable working with BOMs, product specs, and cost drivers
- Basic CAD familiarity is helpful but not required
- Familiarity with ERP/PLM systems
- Strong communication skills (especially explaining technical concepts to non-engineers)
- Customer-focused mindset with strong listening and clarification skills
- Ability to organize and document requirements clearly and accurately
- Strong coordination and project tracking abilities
- Problem-solving mindset with attention to detail
- Flexibility to work across global time zones as required
Physical/Environmental Requirements:
The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk, hear, sit, stand; walk; and use hands to finger, handle, or feel. Must be able to sit and/or stand for long periods of time.
*Disclaimer: This job description describes the general nature and level of work performed in this role. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, skills, responsibilities, knowledge, etc. These may be subject to change and additional functions may be assigned as needed by management