Senior Design Engineer - Lucifer Lighting : Job Details

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. We like to make work enjoyable and engaging.

We light the world's most beautiful spaces.

Position Summary: Responsible for product development from concept through production, leading electro-mechanical product design and/or redesign, part assembly and detailed part drawings. This position is based in our New York City showroom.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design work varies from 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. Brings forth the solutions mentioned above, does not simply identify problems.
• Collaborates with and influences cross functional members of the design team, presenting and communicating project status updates. Mentors and leads other engineers.
• Simultaneously manages multiple projects while effectively influencing, negotiating, and communicating with internal and external partners to generate high-quality, cost-effective solutions.
• Initiates and develops multiple concepts for new products from Market Requirement Specification (MRS).
• Maintains project timelines and determines course corrective actions if required on a project.
• Manages prototyping, testing, and assembly of samples and maintains engineering-related equipment at the NYC satellite office.
• Provide advanced notice to factory-based Engineering Technicians for project coordination and support.
• Attends or leads team meetings on the product delivery system for each major product. When heading a project, the senior design engineer is expected to run these meetings.
• Develops and documents thermal, photometric, regulatory testing plans.
• Generates and revises CAD models, component inspection, prototype build and product testing.
• Points out weak points in designs, works with cross functional team to minimize or remove all that exist.
• Utilizes best practices, including DFM, DFA, and tolerance stack analysis in collaboration with Manufacturing and Supply Chain to ensure designs are optimized for cost, quality, and performance.
• Navigates the regulatory aspects of a project completely without support.
• Travel to Headquarters in Texas 4–5 times per year (approximately 3 nights per trip) for collaboration with factory teams.
• Attend in person designer meetings or visit New York-area job sites as needed.

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:

• 5+ years' experience with lighting product development
• Bachelor's degree in mechanical, electromechanical, or other technical/analytical field
• Detailed knowledge of UL and CSA standards and the NEC
• 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.
• Moderate knowledge in light sources and LED Technologies, including LEDs, COBs, PCBs, Drivers, Control Systems, thermal management (simulation and testing)
• Previous ERP software experience.
• Moderate knowledge of electrical circuits, reliability, wiring, control protocols

Preferred Education and Experience:

• Extensive experience with IP testing, gasket design and thermal simulations.
• High experience with IP portfolio development and management

Lucifer Lighting Company is an equal opportunity employer.