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Optical Engineer

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Southfield, MI Full Time
POSTED ON 4/6/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/5/2025

Company Description

Beacon Hill Technologies

Job Description

RESPONSIBILITIES :

  • 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.

Qualifications

REQUIREMENTS :

  • B.S. in Engineering or Applied Physics.
  • 4 yrs. Illumination Optical Design (non-imaging) experience; LED experience highly preferred.
  • Must have LucidShape 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.
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