Senior Exterior Systems Engineer, Lighting

Ford • Long Beach, CA

74d

About The Position

The Senior Exterior Lighting Systems Engineer will be responsible for designing, developing, validating, and delivering exterior lighting systems for advanced EV products. Candidate will interact with studio and various engineering teams on concept and feature developments, work on integrating state-of-the-art technologies, collaborate with cross-functional teams and suppliers to deliver production design. Candidate will work on concept design at the studio design and modeling phase, and continue through to prototyping, production, validation, and launch. Candidate will optimize manufacturing processes and costs while also meeting regional regulatory compliance, and own the product design throughout the development cycle and deliver for all global markets.

Requirements

• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related field
• 4+ years of experience in automotive lighting component and system engineering (OEM or Tier 1 level)
• 4+ years of experience utilizing CAD (3DX, Catia, NX, ICEMSURF, or Alias) collaboratively, 3DX and CATIA preferred
• 4+ years of experience in lighting systems design, development, release. Completed for one of more production launch cycles
• 3+ years of experience in lighting systems design to global regulation requirements

Nice To Haves

• Strong knowledge on homologation and photometric regulations (FMVSS 108, ECE R48, etc.) related to exterior lighting
• Strong knowledge of optical system development process, experience with optical simulation with SPEOS/Lucid Shape and other equivalents
• Successful execution of automotive lighting production programs, experience with full LED lighting systems preferred
• Excellent understanding of lighting technologies including lightguides, light blades, auto aiming, levelling, adaptive forward lighting (AFS) systems, Adaptive driving beam (ADB), Laser, OLED, Matrix, DMD, etc.
• Strong understanding of the materials and manufacturing processes such as stamping, injection molding, casting, composites, etching, PVD and other surface finishes
• High level of expertise and proficiency with 3DX, Catia, or similar tools including drawing and modelling practices and methodologies

Responsibilities

• Develop state of the art exterior lighting systems and product that meet studio aesthetic intent, and are compliant to global market regulatory requirements
• Engineer and execute exterior lighting from concept design feasibility through to production launch
• Guide cross functional integration of lighting systems with studio, vehicle engineering, electrical engineering, manufacturing and software teams to achieve technically feasible designs
• Analyze, test and validation lighting system prototype and production designs from mechanical, electrical and optical perspective
• Participate in the development process with architecture, planning, supplier chain, and supplier to optimize form, function, performance and cost
• Define requirements, and specifications of exterior Lighting systems to achieve Vehicle attribute targets towards structure, mass, and performance

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
• Tuition assistance
• Established and active employee resource groups
• Paid time off for individual and team community service
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year's Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Transportation Equipment Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree