Position Title:    Exterior/Interior Lighting Studio Engineer

Duration: Contract

Location:   Gothenburg, Sweden

Description of the Assignment:

• Being the voice of design, communicating design intents and needs within engineering
• Translating engineering requirements into design possibilities
• Transferring and describing engineering and key legislative requirements to design
• Generate feasible solutions for technically challenging areas
• Managing and documenting agreements between design and engineering
• Understand design intent and contribute technical solutions to drive development in the design direction 
• Document feasibility of design themes and raise critical issues
• Set up new light concepts in Catia and optical software
• Secure competitive lighting solutions for design. i.e. Benchmark all competitors.
• Tech scouting and arranging presentations/workshops with innovation companies and suppliers within the lighting field.
• Be updated on existing manufacturing methods and technologies 

Qualifications and skills required for the role:

• Very deep lamp technology, engineering, and legal requirement knowledge.
• Capable of understanding design and proposing technical solutions to realise design intent.
• Automotive product concept and component design experience on both exterior and interior lighting.
• Preferably optical software experience (SPEOS, Lucidshape, Light tools)
• Complete understanding of vehicle development process.
• Very good Catia and Teamcenter experience
• Technical university or equivalent, +10 yrs working experience in automotive industry is required.
• Extensive automotive lamp concept engineering experience with an appreciation for aesthetic challenges. 
• Experience working in a design studio is merited.
• An understanding of the engineering and validation processes for vehicle components and systems. 
• A working knowledge of component manufacturing, tooling requirements and lead times.
• Experience supporting development of physical lamp prototypes to assess lighting concepts.

Personal Attributes:

• Leadership skills
• Ability to work individually as well as in cross functional teams and being able to take a leading role
• Highly effective and productive
• Excellent communication skills and teamwork abilities
• Ability to travel to China on occasion. It must be confirmed that the candidate will not have issues obtaining a travel visa from the Chinese Visa Application Centre.
• Fluency in English is required, Mandarin is merited.
• Work will be performed in Studio in Sweden

IT/SW Requirements:

• Catia V5, Teamcenter, MS Office, Jira  
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The assignment includes travel. 

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