# Lighting Engineer

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Salary**: $65,100-$166,200
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

At Ford Motor Company, you can build more than vehicles. Come build what matters.

As a Lighting Engineer, you will carry out optical feasibility studies for ongoing programs from Pre-PS to Job-1. You will interface with Studio, Suppliers, D&R and other core engineers to deliver cost-effective solutions.

## Responsibilities

- Optical design and analysis for Exterior Lighting

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

- Manage and review system-level Optical tools such as Ansys SPEOS, Lucidshape, Luciddrive, LMK tools

- Lead live digital design reviews and resolve optical issues and provide new direction

- Position geometry and develop high-level preliminary Optics proposals or study parts

- 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 verification and signoff 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)

## Qualifications

### Required Skills

- Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering discipline

- Enrolled/completed Optics/CAE degree

- Optics/internship: related automotive and/or lighting applications experience

### Preferred Skills

- Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Optical, or Software Engineering

- Master’s Degree or Enrolled in other Advanced Degree

- Familiarity with the engineering design of exterior lighting components

- Proficiency with Optics software/tools (Ansys SPEOS, Lucidshape, Luciddrive, LMK, Goniometer) to lead digital design reviews, perform optics studies, position geometry, and develop high-level preliminary Optical proposals

- Familiarity with Design For Six Sigma process

- Knowledge of plastic materials, plastic injection molding, optics, basic electrical/electronic circuitry, software, lamp manufacturing processes, tooling, fixture design and product validation

- Knowledge of global lighting regulations

## 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

## Skills

### Required
- Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering discipline
- Optics/CAE degree
- Optics/internship: related automotive and/or lighting applications experience

### Nice to have
- Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Optical, or Software Engineering
- Master’s Degree or Enrolled in other Advanced Degree
- Familiarity with the engineering design of exterior lighting components
- Proficiency with Optics software/tools (Ansys SPEOS, Lucidshape, Luciddrive, LMK, Goniometer)
- Familiarity with Design For Six Sigma process
- Knowledge of plastic materials, plastic injection molding, optics, basic electrical/electronic circuitry, software, lamp manufacturing processes, tooling, fixture design and product validation
- Knowledge of global lighting regulations

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