About This Role
This role involves designing and developing automotive lighting components from concept through production, ensuring design feasibility, manufacturability, quality, and customer requirements. It suits a design engineer with strong experience in automotive lighting or plastic component design, particularly using CATIA V5.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop 3D models and 2D drawings using CATIA V5 in line with engineering standards
- Design and develop automotive lighting components such as headlamps, rear lamps, and related plastic components from concept to production
- Ensure design feasibility considering plastic injection molding, tooling, manufacturing, and assembly constraints
- Create and refine design proposals, sketches, and surface data, including integration with CAS/Class-A surfaces
- Design critical features such as mounting clips, ribs, locators, brackets, bosses, and harness routing provisions
- Perform basic design calculations, tolerance analysis, and design validation related to cost, weight, performance, and manufacturability
- Conduct and participate in Design Reviews (DRs) and ensure timely closure of action items
- Manage CAD data, revisions, and engineering releases through PDM/PLM systems
- Coordinate with styling, optics, simulation, tooling, manufacturing, quality, and project teams
- Interface with customers and internal stakeholders for technical discussions, design clarifications, and project updates
- Support project execution and ensure adherence to project milestones, quality standards, and delivery timelines
Requirements
- 3-5 years of experience in automotive design/development
- Strong hands-on experience in CATIA V5, including Part Design, Assembly Design, Drafting, and Surfacing
- Strong knowledge of plastic component design and injection molding principles
- Understanding of tooling feasibility and manufacturability constraints
- Good knowledge of GD&T and engineering drawing interpretation
- Experience in tolerance stack-up analysis
- Understanding of automotive product development processes
Nice to have:
- Automotive Lighting experience is highly preferred/mandatory
- Experience in designing headlamps, rear lamps, tail lamps, or other automotive lighting components
- Exposure to LED integration and basic optics concepts
- Experience working with CAS/Class-A surface data and styling integration
- Experience with Teamcenter, ENOVIA, or other PLM/PDM tools
- Knowledge of DFMEA, DFM, DFA, and APQP/product development processes
- Exposure to simulation and validation activities
