Italdesign is a service company providing design, engineering and production for the transportation industry, through to final testing and type-approval and support into starting of production and the design of complete Business models. Italdesign is based in Moncalieri, Torino, Italy and today has premises of more than 50.000 squared meters, a full-scale design and engineering campus and a cutting edge development and prototyping center. It has about 1000 employees in Italy, Germany and Spain. Italdesign offers its services to all interested parties worldwide. In 2017 Italdesign launched as additional business, a dedicated unit to design, develop and produce ultra-limited vehicles for all OEMs Worldwide: Italdesign Automobili Speciali. Research and innovation has enabled a continuous growth, along with the ability to choose competent and motivated people, united by a real and concrete passion for excellence. People are able to compete every day with the complexity and competitiveness of the market, able to work in integrated teams, to express their creativity in every field, to give the best of themselves in any conditions. In 2020 Italdesign obtained the Top Employers Certification for the sixth consecutive year.

Italdesign is looking for a skilled and dynamic experienced Optical Engineer who is requested to work on next generation of lighting components in term of optical development, simulation, validation.

Responsibilities

The Optical Engineer, within Italdesign Lighting Team, will be in charge for the following tasks:

• developing optical components in pre-feasibility phases of projects for interior/exterior lighting: s/he will lead pre-development analyses and optical simulations, using simulation tools available in IDG with the goal to verify homologation/specification compliance and aesthetical aspects;
• steering lighting suppliers in development phases of the projects;
• collaborating in the complete integration of optical elements in the lighting components on the vehicle;
• developing and coordinating lighting laboratory activities: videophotometer luminance and illuminance measurements, HIL optical integration, BRDF/BTDF measurements to optically characterize materials for optical simutions for IDG projects of for external customers;
• supporting IDG validation teams in lighting components validation, participating to night road drive tests and other needed tests;
• support optical prototyping activities by Italdesign dedicated workshop: development of aestethical as well as functional mock ups.

Key requirements

• At least 5 years experience in field of Optical Engineering with a focus on automotive lighting applications;
• At least 5 years experience in Lighting simulations (especially using Lucidshape CAA);
• Knowledge of applied optical solutions for interior and exterior lighting (light guides, TIR lenses, lenses, reflectors) as well as light sources (LED/LASER);
• Knowledge of International Regulation for lighting function homologation;
• Experience in optical data post processing and analyses;
• Experience in characterization of optical surfaces and volumes in terms of scattering, roughness and related modellization;
• Experience in CAD CATIA V5 utilization.

Preferential requirements

• Knowledge about imaging optics and related optical solutions;
• Knowledge of SPEOS;
• Knowledge about MATLAB or Mathematica.

• Education: Master Degree in Physics or Optical/Electrical Engineering.

• Language skills: Fluent knowledge of written and spoken Italian and English are required. Knowledge of German would be appreciated.
• Workplace: Moncalieri (TO) and availability to travel.
• Benefit: continuous training (technical, soft and languages skills), company canteen, mobility services, health insurance, car leasing program, smart working, flexible benefits, good work-life balance

Italdesign is committed to create an inclusive, diverse and safe workplace, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer (L.903/77).