Lighting Optical Engineer Jobs

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate and participate in local and customer night drives.
• Coordinate lab and road studies for optical models, prototype, and production parts.
• Assist in the development and implementation of operating procedures and guidelines for photometric equipment and photo lab personnel.
• Work with business development group to provide timely and accurate feasibility studies.
• Understand and apply principles of visible light reflection and refraction to create optical models.
• Work with mechanical design through release to address mechanical issues that may impact integrity of optical prescription.
• Keep abreast of domestic and international photometric legal requirements.
• Create and define robust computer aided design files and computer aided engineering files for the purpose of creating and evaluating complex optical systems.
• Provide technical resource to VA/VE initiatives.
• Lead Optics team to determine commercial application and prototype needs, while developing and documenting new tools, techniques, and guidelines.
• Create and evaluate supportive technical documentation for Program Managers to present to the customer.
• Provide technical support to Manufacturing, Quality Engineering, Program Managers, Project Managers and Tooling Engineering.
• Investigate, develop, and prototype new lighting concepts, processes and applications that will raise the company's competitive position with the intent of commercializing the technology.
• Understand patent situation on new technologies and educate team on developments.
• All other duties, as assigned.
• Understand computer simulation theory and associated limitations and assumptions.
• Laboratory development: physical measurements of lamps and analysis of photometric attributes.
• Evaluate and submit required tunes to optimize optical performance.
• Direct program managers and tooling engineers regarding optical prescriptions caveats.
• Work directly with approval authorities to obtain formal certification of products.

Key Qualifications/Requirements

• Minimum five years of experience in automotive exterior lighting optical design.
• Computer literate including CATIA, LucidShape, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Project.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering/Design degree or equivalent experience.
• Familiarity with light manufacturing processes.

Additional Information

• Strong mechanical and optical design skills.
• Able to gain support and cooperation of team members both internal and external.
• Works independently or in a team.
• Able to travel and manage flexible work schedule requirements.
• Independently manage assigned projects for cost and timing Tools and Techniques.
• Capable of initiating and following tasks through to completion.
• Ability to write programs using a scripting language.
• Signal lighting preferred.
• Ability to multitask effectively, shift priorities and directions due to customer driven requirements.
• Flexible working hours are required and the ability to travel to customer sites for technical reviews and night drive evaluations.
• Strong and varied interpersonal skills that include communication and negotiation with supplier and customer representatives through written and verbal correspondence.
• Understands product manufacturing and costing processes.
• Keen ability to solve problems and facilitate solutions in a time dependent automotive environment.
• Operate the gonio-photometer as an engineering tool to verify and evaluate physical optical systems and use the output from said device to effect changes/ improvements to the optical system under consideration.
• Strong computer skills with the ability to handle complex computer aided engineering tasks.