Optical Engineer

• 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.

REQUIREMENTS:

• B.S. in Engineering or Applied Physics.
• Must have Lucid Shape 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.