Smart Eyewear Product Design Engineer

If you’ve worn a pair of glasses, we’ve already met.

We are a global leader in the design, manufacture, and distribution of ophthalmic lenses, frames, and sunglasses. We offer our industry stakeholders in over 150 countries access to a global platform of high-quality vision care products (such as the Essilor brand, with Varilux, Crizal, Eyezen, Stellest and Transitions), iconic brands that consumers love (such as Ray-Ban, Oakley, Persol, Oliver Peoples, Vogue Eyewear and Costa), as well as a network that offers consumers high-quality vision care and best-in-class shopping experiences (such as Sunglass Hut, LensCrafters, Salmoiraghi & Viganò and the GrandVision network), and leading e-commerce platforms.

Join our global community of over 190,000 dedicated employees around the world in driving the transformation of the eyewear and eyecare industry.

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Role Overwiew

As a Product Design Engineer for Smart Eyewear project, you will follow the project since the very beginning, actively participating to the Product Design phase, where a solid, proactive, and creative problem-solving approach is required, and supporting Product Development up until the launch to Mass Production.
In this role, you will be responsible for the 3D Model design on CAD and modeling of complex smart eyewear systems in which aesthetics plays a key role. For a successful path should also be able to achieve a holistic understanding of the product and its functionalities.
You will work closely with Product Design Engineers, Industrial Designers, User Experience team, Quality, Manufacturing.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and act as reference for the development of complex mechanical solutions as a member of a multi-disciplinary team
• Ideate, design, build, test, and refine prototypes and characterization test systems
• Push state-of-the-art technologies and approaches to solve complex mechanical problems
• Work across the full product development cycle, especially from idea, to concept definition and to product finalization
• Collaborate closely with industrial designers, UX team and quality.
• Travel to and support engineering builds and vendor visits

Qualifications

• Educational Background in Mechanical Engineering/Industrial Design 
• Knowledge and Experience of Parametric 3D Cad Software, better if Creo software
• Knowledge and Experience on PDM, better if Windchill system
• Knowledge on design and process of Injection molding
• 3+ years of industry experience in mechanical design or in mold Design
• Experience in Design for Manufacturing (DFM), Design for Assembly (DFA), statistical tolerance analysis techniques, functional dimensioning, geometric tolerancing, and 3D/2D CAD
• Knowledge of design and simulation tools, prototyping tools, manufacturing technologies and materials.
• Working knowledge in material properties, such as plastics, metal, adhesive, glass, etc.
• Experience building relationships and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
• Experience operating autonomously across multiple teams.
• High level of organizational skills
• Scientific approach and great problem-solving skills
• Ability to operate in dynamic, fast-paced environment with minimal supervision.
• Previous experience in Consumer Electronics Product Development is greatly appreciated.
• Experience with Office 365

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