Grote Industries · 15 hours ago
Senior Optical Engineer
Madison, IN
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
3+ years expGrote Industries is a globally recognized manufacturer and supplier specializing in advanced lighting solutions and safety systems for heavy-duty trucks and various industries. The Senior Optical Engineer will design, develop, and implement optical systems for innovative lighting products, focusing on headlamps and signal lamps for OEM customers.
AutomotiveManufacturing
Hiring Manager
Joshua Schafer
Responsibilities
Working with project team members to develop new or improved lamp designs satisfying regulatory and customer performance, durability, and quality requirements along with meeting internal manufacturing process requirements and cost targets
Performing and/or coordinating testing of lamps and components to ensure the product meets all requirements
Developing/improving and documenting design, simulation, and testing standards related to all aspects of lamp mechanical design
Working with the Manufacturing and Quality teams to troubleshoot and resolve issues related to manufacturing processes and quality controls
Working with the Purchasing team in the sourcing of purchased components and validation of suppliers and ensuring that purchased components are properly designed/spec’d to conform to industry standards, minimize cost, and maximize supply chain flexibility
Working with the Sales team in the quoting of new or revised business and customer management including the estimation of part and capital costs
Mentoring other engineers and team members in all aspects of lamp quoting, design, manufacturing, validation, etc
Qualification
Required
Extensive (3-5+ years) optical engineering design experience in automotive headlamps and/or signal lamps (or similar)
Familiarity with relevant mechanical and/or electrical engineering design principles
Experience with the manufacturing processes relevant to automotive lighting and optical components in particular, such as injection molding, plastic part assembly, coatings, etc
Good documentation, communication, and teamwork skills
Extensive experience with Lucid Shape and associated optical design modules/software
Extensive experience designing optical systems using LEDs, molded lenses, and molded/metallized reflectors for automotive lighting applications
Extensive experience testing and validating optical systems/devices using goniometers, integrating spheres, spectroradiometers, etc
Injection molded plastic part design including a thorough understanding of injection mold tooling and plastic part assembly
Creo CAD experience
Capability in the research, review, interpretation, and application of relevant regulatory requirements and industry standards, specifically in relation to FMVSS 108, UN Regulations (R148-R150), and the SAE Lighting Systems Group
Advanced GD&T application
Tolerance stack-up analysis
Performing and/or coordinating/reviewing simulations/analyses utilizing the listed or similar software: Vibration/Static/Thermal FEA utilizing Ansys Mechanical, Thermal CFD utilizing FloEFD, Mold flow analysis utilizing MoldEx, followed by AutoDesk MoldFlow, Part measurement and dimensional analysis utilizing PolyWorks
Preferred
Extensive experience with Zemax, SPEOs, or other optical design software
Extensive experience testing and validating optical systems/devices using goniometers, integrating spheres, spectroradiometers, etc
Creo CAD experience is optimal, followed by Catia or NX and then other systems
Company
Grote Industries
Grote Industries is an automotive company offering manufactures LED Lights and lighting products for heavy duty trucks.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Dominic Grote
President & CEO
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