Application Engineer

Looking for your next exciting career opportunity? Light Guide, Inc. offers competitive and diverse benefits with a supportive and values driven company culture. Join our team today!

Our Mission:
Light Guide empowers people to build a brighter tomorrow.

Our Vision:
We are creating a future in which frontline workers reach their maximum potential, enabled by augmented intelligence.

Our Values:
Build Together, Build Smarter, Build with Urgency, Build for Sustainability, Build for All

Light Guide, Inc. is the leading projected augmented reality (AR) work instruction software platform that transforms manual manufacturing processes for companies worldwide. The projected step-by-step work instructions displayed directly on the "operating canvas" create an immersive, interactive work experience, optimizing the performance and efficiency of the human operator. Light Guide captures real-time operational metrics, enabling full digital traceability for complex manufacturing processes.

The software easily adapts to specific processes and interfaces with existing manufacturing equipment and enterprise information systems. The fully integrated approach dramatically improves the standardization, throughput, and error-proofing of manufacturing processes across a wide range of industries and use cases. Today, Light Guide, Inc. works with many leading companies in the automotive, aerospace & defense, electronics, diverse manufacturing and food and beverage industries.

Applications Engineering Manager

Full-time, Salary, Exempt, Hybrid

As an Application Engineer, you will design and deliver industrial augmented reality solutions that combine Light Guide software with hardware, automation, manufacturing systems, and customer processes.

You will work directly with customers, Sales, Engineering, Operations, and external partners to take applications from initial concept through technical design and deployment. This is a hands-on, multidisciplinary engineering role for someone who enjoys understanding how things work, solving complex manufacturing challenges, and turning ideas into practical, production-ready systems.

Our Application Engineers work across mechanical, electrical, controls, software, and manufacturing disciplines. You do not need to be an expert in every area, but you should be curious, technically versatile, and comfortable learning new technologies.

Design Industrial Solutions

• Partner with customers and the Light Guide Sales team to understand manufacturing challenges, processes, requirements, and success criteria.
• Develop creative technical solutions using Light Guide technology and complementary hardware and software.
• Own application designs from early concept through detailed system definition and deployment.
• Prepare scopes of work, bills of materials, system concepts, layouts, and supporting technical documentation.
• Ensure proposed solutions are practical, scalable, maintainable, and aligned with the capabilities of the Light Guide platform.

Integrate Hardware, Software, and Automation

• Select and specify hardware such as projectors, cameras, sensors, actuators, industrial computers, PLCs, robots, smart tools, gauges, networking equipment, enclosures, cables, and pneumatic components.
• Design or specify mechanical components including workstations, mounting systems, brackets, tooling, fixtures, linear rails, and mobile systems.
• Develop solutions that interface with manufacturing equipment, controls, automation, and enterprise systems.
• Evaluate software and integration requirements involving systems such as MES, ERP, MRP, QMS, MOM, PLM, CAD, and related manufacturing technologies.
• Build a strong understanding of Light Guide software, hardware, architecture, capabilities, and technical limitations.

Solve Manufacturing Problems

• Apply engineering judgment and manufacturing best practices to improve quality, productivity, ergonomics, standardization, traceability, and error-proofing.
• Use principles from lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, the Toyota Production System, human factors, and ergonomics where appropriate.
• Troubleshoot complex technical issues spanning mechanical, electrical, controls, software, networking, and manufacturing processes.
• Continuously improve the tools, processes, standards, and methods used to design and deploy Light Guide solutions.

Work Directly With Customers

• Visit customer facilities to understand processes, assess potential applications, collect…