Instrumentation Development Engineer

About the role

At Gentex, you’ll help create innovative technologies that improve how people live, travel, and stay connected. Join a company driven by quality products across an evolving range of industries.

Position Summary: The Instrumentation Development Engineer I designs, develops, and improves measurement systems, ensuring they meet quality and accuracy requirements. This role combines engineering technical expertise with creativity to ensure functionality, efficiency, and innovation. The Instrumentation Development Engineer I interfaces with the larger engineering team, covering manufacturing operations and research and development projects.

Responsibilities

• Assist in designing, setting up, and troubleshooting various measurement systems, with a strong focus on optical spectroscopy equipment.
• Collect and document system requirements at project launch, to accurately specify hardware needs.
• Write and maintain technical documentation so end users can easily understand how the measurement systems function.
• Create effective calibration procedures for custom systems or off-the-shelf instruments.
• Provide troubleshooting support during manufacturing downtime events to help technician teams quickly solve issues.
• Prototype new systems to build confidence before pursuing production grade designs with the larger team.
• Actively engage and collaborate with individuals and teams across the organization to solve impactful problems.

Skills

How You’ll Do It:

• Technical Expertise: Strong understanding of engineering principles, product lifecycle, and design software.
• Communicating Effectively: Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey clear understanding, taking into account the unique needs of different audiences.
• Analytical Thinking: Tackling a problem by using a logical, systematic, and sequential approach.
• Problem Solving: Defining a problem, determining the cause, identifying, prioritizing and selecting alternatives for a solution, and implementing a solution.
• Project Management: Applying knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to manage and meet project requirements.
• Fostering Teamwork: Building effective partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
• Maintaining a high level of honesty, integrity, and confidentiality with respect to company matters.
• Complying with all Company policies and procedures, safety regulations, company safety policies and safely perform all duties, including but not limited to, promoting a safe workplace.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Optical) or relevant technical disciplines.
• 1+ years of engineering experience.
• Demonstrated problem solving and analysis skills.
• Basic or better understanding of optics and light.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in measurement system analysis or design of experiments.
• Knowledge of color science and color measurements.
• Previous experience with optical spectroscopy or metrology.
• Hands on prototyping experience.
• Basic or better knowledge of electronics and mechanical concepts.
• Previous exposure to a lab or manufacturing environment.
• Programming experience in any language (LabVIEW, MATLAB, C#, etc.).