Design Engineer

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: As a part of the Engineering department the Design Engineer is responsible for new product development and design. Works in an electronic environment to do overall conceptualizing, product design, and redesign, part assembly, and detailed part drawings.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Designs innovative new product, involved in various aspects of the design process including, the development of part geometry, assembly design, and drawing generation. Design work varies form new product development to product enhancements and may involve work with problem jobs or field fixes
• Works with the Engineering and broader team and to drive design and development activities and ensure that projects are completed within budget and in a timely manner
• Develops and analyzes engineering data in the form of Engineering Change Notices, technical reports, design spreadsheets, bills of material, and parts tracking
• Actively supports, and sometimes leads, team meetings on the product delivery system for each major product
• Continuously look for areas of process improvement directed at improving process productivity including quality, purchasing, and manufacturing. This includes sourcing new or alternate processes, equipment, and training of manpower. Look for advancements or changes in technology
• Supports Lean Transformation as Kaizen team participant and/or leader and completion of post Kaizen activity
• Develops and documents thermal, photometric, regulatory testing plans Submits test request follow-up with the testing group
• Collaborates 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
• Utilizes 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
• Directs design and innovation efforts to develop optimal solutions through equipment specification, material flow, process design, site capabilities, and intellectual property considerations
• Coordinate with Quality, Purchasing, and Production departments to resolve any product issues.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to successfully work on multiple deliverables in parallel
• Strong teamwork skills to influence within cross-functional team, while also having ability to work independently
• Passionate in finding resolutions to problems and articulate in expressing solutions
• Waterfall/gate style product development experience
• Proficient with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Understanding of test plan creation and end-to-end product development
• Background in consumer electronics industry, or some other manufacturing field
• Basic knowledge of EAN & Six Sigma methodology and practices.
• Demonstrated understanding of GD&T

Required Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, electromechanical, or other technical/analytical field (or offsetting experience)
• Experienced in 2D, 3D CAD software (SolidWorks).
• Passion for design, whether it be professional, or hobby based
• 2-3 years’ work experience in product development

Preferred Education and Experience:

• 4 years’ work experience
• Basic 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
• Basic knowledge of UL and CSA standards and the NEC
• Basic knowledge of electrical circuits, wiring
• Awareness of light sources and LED Technologies, including LEDs, COBs, PCBs, Drivers, Control Systems, thermal management (simulation and testing)
• Previous ERP software experience, specifically Syteline

Working Environment:

• Smoke free workplace.

Lucifer Lighting is an equal employment opportunity employer