Exterior Lighting Engineer

In this position...

The Ford Exterior Lighting Engineer role spans a variety of engineering fields including mechanical, electrical, software, and optics. This position involves responsibilities including definition of requirements, product design, tooling, validation testing, and launching in an assembly plant during the development of Exterior Lighting products throughout a vehicle's lifecycle. This role requires an engineer to lead and drive a cross functional team that includes lighting suppliers, optics, software, studio, purchasing, manufacturing, and quality functions.

Our ideal candidate desires to build their career as an engineer within exterior lighting. This candidate must demonstrate clear communication and project management skills and is a passionate, hard-working person who enjoys taking on challenges and following through with robust solutions.

In this position... The Ford Exterior Lighting Engineer role spans a variety of engineering fields including mechanical, electrical, software, and optics. This position involves responsibilities including definition of requirements, product design, tooling, validation testing, and launching in an assembly plant during the development of Exterior Lighting products throughout a vehicle's lifecycle. This role requires an engineer to lead and drive a cross functional team that includes lighting suppliers, optics, software, studio, purchasing, manufacturing, and quality functions.

Our ideal candidate desires to build their career as an engineer within exterior lighting. This candidate must demonstrate clear communication and project management skills and is a passionate, hard-working person who enjoys taking on challenges and following through with robust solutions.

What you'll do…

* Systems Engineering for Exterior Lighting

* Generate and execute technical solutions for Exterior Lighting components to support new vehicle programs

* Perform complex engineering evaluation analysis

* Work cross-functionally to implement cost savings, product improvements, and to support prototype and production build activities

* Balance attributes such as cost, weight, complexity, and timing

* Production release of Exterior Lighting systems, subsystems, components, and features

* Core requirement and technology development

* Communicate information to and from internal and external organizations

* Lead team meetings (suppliers, designers, engineers, manufacturing, supplier quality, etc.)

* Travel as required (including international)

What you'll do…

* Systems Engineering for Exterior Lighting

* Generate and execute technical solutions for Exterior Lighting components to support new vehicle programs

* Perform complex engineering evaluation analysis

* Work cross-functionally to implement cost savings, product improvements, and to support prototype and production build activities

* Balance attributes such as cost, weight, complexity, and timing

* Production release of Exterior Lighting systems, subsystems, components, and features

* Core requirement and technology development

* Communicate information to and from internal and external organizations

* Lead team meetings (suppliers, designers, engineers, manufacturing, supplier quality, etc.)

* Travel as required (including international)