Your Job
As a Testing & Validation Engineer, you'll play a hands-on role in bringing new automotive products to life. You'll work in a lab-focused environment, building test setups, running experiments, and seeing how products perform under real-world conditions. You'll take products from concept to reality, developing and executing validation plans that ensure performance, reliability, and durability before they ever reach the road. This is an ideal opportunity for an early-career engineer who enjoys building, testing, troubleshooting, and solving real engineering challenges alongside a collaborative team.
Location: Grand Blanc, MI | Onsite 5 days per week
Our Team
At Molex Connected Mobility, we're shaping how vehicles communicate, developing technologies that are integrated directly into next-generation vehicles, from 5G connectivity to advanced antenna systems.
What You Will Do
- Bring new automotive antenna products to life by developing and executing validation plans that ensure performance in real-world conditions
- Design and build hands-on test setups, fixtures, and methods to evaluate product reliability and functionality
- Run mechanical and environmental testing (vibration, thermal, durability) on prototypes and production parts
- Turn test data into insight, analyzing results to understand material behavior, product performance, and failure points
- Investigate and troubleshoot failures, partnering with cross-functional teams to identify root causes and drive improvements
- Support Design of Experiments (DOE) and validation activities to solve complex engineering and production challenges
- Collaborate with internal teams and external labs to keep testing on track and aligned with program milestones
- Communicate results and recommendations clearly through reports and presentations to stakeholders and customers
- Help evolve lab capabilities by improving test methods, tools, and validation processes
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related engineering field
- Minimum 6 years of hands-on experience planning and executing environmental and mechanical testing, including vibration, thermal cycling, thermal shock, humidity, durability, and other qualification testing methods.
- Demonstrated ability to interpret engineering drawings, specifications, or test requirements through coursework or project work
Working knowledge of mechanical engineering fundamentals (e.g., stress, strain, fatigue, thermal effects)
- Experience documenting and communicating technical results (e.g., lab reports, test summaries, presentations)
- Basic proficiency with CAD tools (e.g., Siemens NX, SolidWorks, Creo, or similar)
- Ability to communicate technical concepts and test results to both technical and non-technical audiences, including internal teams and external partners (e.g., customers or suppliers)
- Less than 5% travel
What Will Put You Ahead
- Internship, co-op, or project experience in product validation, testing, or mechanical design
- Hands-on experience setting up or executing lab-based tests
- Exposure to failure analysis, troubleshooting, or root-cause problem solving
- Familiarity with automotive, electronics, or antenna-related systems
- Experience with Design of Experiments (DOE)
- Experience creating CAD models or drawings for fixtures, jigs, or prototypes Why This Role
- Work on real automotive programs with direct impact on vehicle performance and connectivity
- Build hands-on experience testing hardware used in production vehicles
- Gain early ownership and exposure across the full product development lifecycle
- Collaborate with experienced engineers and cross-functional teams to accelerate your growth
At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.
Hiring Philosophy
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Who We Are
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here , aquí , or tu ).
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