Lighting Engineer

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

The Ford Exterior Lighting Engineer role spans a variety of engineering fields including mechanical, electrical, software, and optics. This position involves responsibilities including definition of requirements, product design, tooling, validation testing, and launching in an assembly plant during the development of Exterior Lighting products throughout a vehicle's lifecycle. This role requires an engineer to lead and drive a cross-functional team that includes lighting suppliers, optics, software, studio, purchasing, manufacturing, and quality functions.

Responsibilities:

• Systems Engineering for Exterior Lighting
• Generate and execute technical solutions for Exterior Lighting components to support new vehicle programs
• Manage and review system-level CAD content utilizing CATIA and 3DEXPERIENCE (3DX)
• Lead live digital design reviews and resolve packaging, clearance, and interface issues within the system context
• Position geometry and develop high-level preliminary CAD 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 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:

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering discipline
• 2+ years of related automotive and/or lighting applications experience (inclusive of professional, co-op, and internship positions).

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.