Antenna Design Engineering Manager Location Grand Blanc, Michigan Company Molex Career Field Engineering Our Vehicle Antenna Systems team develops advanced antenna solutions for automotive customers across North America. We support a broad portfolio of vehicle platforms, customer programs, and wireless technologies from initial concept through production. You will lead experienced antenna, high-frequency, and simulation engineers with deep technical knowledge. Your leadership will help turn individual expertise into shared capability by strengthening collaboration, technical documentation, design reuse, and engineering processes. The team partners with mechanical, validation, circuit-design, manufacturing, supplier, and customer engineering groups. We also collaborate regularly with global engineering teams, including colleagues in Germany and China, to share designs, technical methods, and lessons learned. Serve as a hands-on player-coach, spending approximately 60% of your time on technical leadership, antenna engineering, design reviews, simulation, testing, and problem-solving, and approximately 40% leading and developing the engineering team. Lead the development, simulation, integration, and optimization of automotive antenna structures and high-frequency systems from concept and prototyping through vehicle validation and production. Provide technical leadership across technologies including 5G, Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, vehicle-to-everything (V2X), ultra-wideband (UWB), AM/FM, digital audio broadcasting, satellite radio, and keyless-entry systems. Establish clear priorities, ownership, and development plans that help the team meet technical, quality, schedule, cost, and customer commitments. Improve engineering efficiency by implementing repeatable processes, documentation standards, and design-reuse practices that enable the team to apply proven technology across multiple vehicle platforms. Lead design reviews, evaluate simulation and measurement results, identify technical risks, and guide failure analysis, corrective actions, over-the-air testing, and complete-vehicle validation. Lead with an entrepreneurial mindset by constructively challenging existing approaches, encouraging new ideas, removing barriers, and coaching team members to expand their capabilities, take ownership, and create greater value. Represent antenna engineering in customer presentations and cross-functional technical reviews while partnering with engineering, manufacturing, supplier, and global teams. Master's degree or higher in electrical engineering, communications engineering, high-frequency engineering, physics, or a comparable technical field.10 or more years of professional experience developing antenna structures and systems. Experience with electromagnetic simulation, antenna structure design, performance optimization, and antenna integration. Experience using electromagnetic simulation tools such as CST Studio Suite, Ansys HFSS, or FEKO.Experience with radio-frequency measurement technology, network analyzers, antenna test chambers, and over-the-air measurements. Experience leading complex antenna development from concept and simulation through prototype testing, validation, and production. Experience providing technical or people leadership to engineers working on complex development programs. Direct experience designing and integrating automotive antenna systems into vehicle components or complete vehicles. Experience with automotive antenna architectures, packaging constraints, vehicle-level electromagnetic behavior, and production requirements. Experience with active and passive antenna systems and radio-frequency front-end architectures. Experience across multiple wireless technologies, including 5G, GNSS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, V2X, UWB, broadcast radio, satellite radio, or keyless-entry systems. Experience using Optenni or related radio-frequency optimization tools. People-management experience leading antenna, high-frequency, electromagnetic simulation, or related engineering teams. Experience presenting technical concepts, design recommendations, risks, and validation results to automotive customers. Experience establishing technical documentation, design libraries, engineering databases, or other methods for reusing proven designs and lessons learned. Experience collaborating with globally distributed engineering teams. 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. 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.
