Automotive Exterior Lighting Engineer — Power Electronics

Pentangle Tech Services | P5 Group; Allen Park (MI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Pentangle Tech Services | P5 Group is seeking a hardware engineer focused on automotive exterior lighting systems in Michigan. You will contribute to end-to-end hardware development for headlamps, signaling lamps, and rear lamps, balancing EMI, thermal, and cost constraints.

The role involves system-level power architectures and LED driver strategies, ASIL functional safety considerations, CAN-FD/LIN integration, and leading pre‑compliance EMC testing to ensure production readiness.

Responsibilities

• End-to-end hardware development for automotive exterior lighting systems including headlamps, signaling lamps, and rear combination lamps.
• System-level power architectures and LED driver strategies (linear vs switching) under tight EMI, thermal, and cost constraints.
• ASIL QM/A/B functional safety.
• CAN-FD/LIN integration
• Performing worst‑case circuit analysis, derating, thermal and reliability analysis (DFMEA, MTBF) to ensure production readiness.
• Driving pre‑compliance and compliance EMC testing, resolving conducted and radiated emission issues through layout, filtering, and architectural changes.

Skills

Power Electronics

LED Lighting

EMI/EMC

DFMEA

MTBF

CAN-FD

LIN

Thermal Analysis

Hardware Development

Functional Safety

Job description

Pentangle Tech Services | P5 Group is seeking a hardware engineer focused on automotive exterior lighting systems in Michigan. You will contribute to end-to-end hardware development for headlamps, signaling lamps, and rear lamps, balancing EMI, thermal, and cost constraints.

The role involves system-level power architectures and LED driver strategies, ASIL functional safety considerations, CAN-FD/LIN integration, and leading pre‑compliance EMC testing to ensure production readiness.