- Create innovative exterior and interior lighting systems for Automotive, Commercial Vehicles, and Recreational Vehicles using incandescent, HID, and LED light sources.
- Ensure that optical designs can be tooled, manufactured, and meet legal and customer requirements within defined tolerances.
- Perform feasibility, and benchmark studies to support quotes, and future marketing.
- Analyze off-tool parts, perform root cause analysis, and assist in certification of lamps.
- Interface pro-actively with Design Engineers, Electrical Engineers, Tooling Engineers, and Customers.
- Define and understand legal market requirements for vehicle lighting including: FMVSS 108, ECE, CCC, and SAE standards.
- Assist in design of manufacturing tools, fixtures and processes that are required to build and service the optical sub-systems.
- Evaluate parts, optical testing related equipment and vendors related to optical development of lamps.
- Review all engineering designs that interact with the optical subsystems of company products.
- Optimize designs to improve beam characteristics and overall optical efficiency.
- Evaluate and characterize secondary optical solutions and customer lighting fixtures using optical instrumentation such as a goniometer, optical comparator, spectrometer etc.
- Generate clear and detailed documentation.
- Work closely with Engineering teams to find solutions to next generation products.
- Work with Manufacturing to diagnose complex issues with the company’s products.
Qualifications
REQUIREMENTS:
- B.S. in Engineering or Applied Physics.
- Must have LucidShape or similar optical design software experience.
- CATIA V5, or other 3D CAD experience.
- Certification/Knowledge of test equipment like Goniometer and integrating sphere.
- Basic programming experience preferred.
- Excellent communication skills, both oral and written.
- Well versed in Microsoft office applications.
- Team player and self-motivated, and be able to thrive in a start-up environment.
- Balanced judgment to operate within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.
Additional Information
Salary is based on experience
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