Senior Design Engineer

Job Details
Level
Experienced
Job Location
Corporate Office - San Antonio, TX
Position Type
Full Time
Education Level
4 Year Degree
Job Shift
Day
Job Category
Engineering
Description
Lucifer Lighting Company is a privately held San Antonio-based designer and manufacturer of precision-engineered architectural lighting fixtures. You'll find our products everywhere from SF MOMA to the Nike Headquarters. We're in the campuses of 4 of the 5 largest tech companies and 5 of the top 10 tallest towers in the U.S. Our customers are the world's leading architects and designers who look for minimalist industrial design and place a premium on service, quality, and innovation. Our people make magic happen; we are passionate, smart, hard-working, committed, and creative.
Lucifer Lighting has an amazing opportunity for a driven, creative, and highly proficient Senior Design Engineer . The Senior Design Engineer is responsible for product development from concept through production, leading electro-mechanical product design and/or redesign, part assembly and detailed part drawings. Your quick execution, commitment to excellence, and collaborative spirit with other departments to ensure we meet timeline deliverables, are imperative skillsets that will drive your success!
As a Full-time employee, you will enjoy our "best-in-class" benefits program with career advancement opportunities. We have an incredible benefits package that includes health insurance and 401K Plan matching contributions; and generous paid time off that also includes 10 paid holidays as well as the entire last week of the year!
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design work varies form new product development to product enhancements and may involve work with problem jobs or field fixes. Develops and distributes engineering data in the form of Engineering Change Notices, bills of material and parts tracking.
• Collaborates with and influences cross functional members of the design team, presenting and communicating project status updates to senior management.
• Simultaneously manages multiple projects and tasks while effectively influencing, negotiating, and communicating with internal and external business partners, contractors and vendors to generate high-quality, cost-effective solutions.
• Mentors and leads other engineers.
• Manages prototyping, testing, and assembly of samples.
• Attends or leads team meetings on the product delivery system for each major product. When heading a project, the lead design engineer is expected to run these meetings.
• Initiates and develops concepts for new products from Market Requirement Specification (MRS) provided by the VP of Product and other avenues such as reviewing competitor's samples and documentation, and free design techniques. These concepts must be agreeable with standard manufacturing methods utilized by the onsite manufacturing facility or supply chain.
• Develops and documents thermal, photometric, regulatory testing plans Submits test request follow-up with the testing group. Submits prototyping requests, works with machine shop and external vendors in production of prototypes and assembly of samples.
• Generates and revises CAD drawings and models, component inspection, prototype build and product testing.
• Utilize best practices, including DFM, DFA, and tolerance stack analysis in collaboration with manufacturing, supply chain, and vendors to ensure designs are optimized for cost, quality, and performance.

Qualifications
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Experienced in 2D, 3D CAD software (AutoCAD, SolidWorks).
• Experience with Project Management
• High sense of urgency with ability to prioritize multiple projects.
• Waterfall/gate style product development experience. Experience with Agile a secondary priority.
• Knowledge of Lean and ideally Kaizen, continuous improvement, poka-yoke, 5S.
• Highly proficient with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Required Education and Experience:

• 6+ years' experience with product development
• Bachelor's degree in mechanical, electromechanical, architectural, or other technical/analytical field
• Moderate knowledge of some or all the CE, NOM, IEC standards
• Detailed knowledge of castings (die and investment), forgings, plastic injection moldings, extrusions, machining, heat sink design, sheet metal, surface treatments (powder coating, painting, plating), stamping, drawing.
• Previous ERP software experience.
• Moderate knowledge of electrical circuits, reliability, wiring, control protocols

Preferred Education and Experience:

• 4+ years' experience with architectural down lighting, track product development for the North American and European markets
• Extensive experience with IP testing, gasket design and thermal simulations.
• Moderate knowledge in light sources and LED Technologies, including LEDs, COBs, PCBs, Drivers, Control Systems, thermal management (simulation and testing)
• Moderate knowledge of IoT lighting specific landscape
• High experience with IP portfolio development and management
• Detailed knowledge of UL and CSA standards and the NEC

Working Environment:

• WHO WE ARE
  • Ambitious. Creative. Committed. Driven. Fun-loving. World class.
  • These words describe our company and our community.
  • We care for our employees like they are family.
  • We care for our colleagues by setting high expectations, creating opportunities to grow professionally and creatively, and having fun along the way.
  • We care for our community by giving time, resources, and money to causes that support San Antonio and continuing education, architecture, and design.
  • We care for our customers by exceeding their expectations for what's possible.

• Smoke free workplace.

Lucifer Lighting Company is an equal opportunity employer.