Job Title: Optics Engineer with Automotive Exterior Lighting
Location: Silao, Guanajuato, Mexico (Onsite)
Job Description: Optical Engineer - Automotive Exterior Lighting
Experience: 3-5 Years
Function: Optical Design & Simulation
Industry: Tier 1, Automotive Exterior Lighting
Skills: Optics, Exterior Lighting, Lucid Shape, SPEOS
Key Responsibilities
- Design and develop optical systems for automotive exterior lighting products, including reflectors, lenses, light guides, thick-wall optics, and other illumination concepts.
- Create and optimize optical prescriptions to meet photometric, styling, packaging, thermal, and manufacturing requirements.
- Perform optical simulations, analyse results, identify performance gaps, and implement design improvements.
- Collaborate with mechanical design teams to resolve packaging, tolerance, material, surface-quality, and assembly-related issues affecting optical performance.
- Support feasibility studies, concept evaluations, technical proposals, and preliminary performance assessments for new business opportunities.




- Coordinate prototype, laboratory, and vehicle-level evaluations of optical models and production-intent parts.
- Conduct physical lamp measurements and analyze photometric performance using laboratory equipment.
- Provide optical design requirements and technical guidance to program management, tooling, manufacturing, quality, and project teams.
- Prepare optical reports, simulation results, design documentation, and customer presentation materials.
- Participate in technical reviews and product-performance evaluations with customers and internal stakeholders.
- Support troubleshooting of optical performance issues during development, tooling, industrialization, and production.
- Maintain awareness of applicable automotive lighting regulations and homologation requirements, including ECE, SAE, FMVSS, and CCC.

Required Skills and Competencies
- Strong understanding of geometric optics, photometry, illumination pr

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