Optical Engineer

Beacon Hill Technologies

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.

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.