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.

Salary is based on experience