System Architect

Your mission

• Drive the design, development, and validation of automotive lighting system solutions in compliance with technical standards and IATF 16949.
• Create and own technical documentation and specifications, ensuring robust and manufacturable product solutions.
• Act as system-level interface between mechanical, electrical, optical, and thermal disciplines to ensure holistic design integration.
• Manage supplier relationships and translate customer requirements into technical system concepts in close collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
• Structure and execute work packages aligned with project objectives and business targets, ensuring transparency on progress, risks, and deliverables.
• Contribute to innovation initiatives, technology scouting, and IP generation while strengthening cross-functional collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Occasional business travel to conferences, fairs, workshops and customers.

Your profile

• You are hands-on and driven by curiosity and technical depth.
• You absorb new information rapidly and structure it independently.
• You are comfortable diving into complex physical domains - optical, thermal, electrical, mechanical - and understanding how they interact.
• You think analytically and work from first principles when needed.
• You are able to overlay and structure diverse requirements to form a coherent system concept.
• You likely hold a strong academic background in Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering or a related field.

Why us?

• Culture & Impact
• International team with start-up spirit and flat hierarchies
• Fast decision-making & strong connection to our global HQ in Japan
• Real automotive lighting products with visible customer impact
• Hands-on engineering in a high-tech LED & laser environment
• Benefits
• Attractive compensation incl. holiday & Christmas pay, bonus & company pension scheme
• Balanced working environment with 30 days vacation, 38.5h/week, flexible work models with mobile work options, special leave and paid child sick days
• JobBike and JobCar programs available via salary conversion

About us

Nichia is the worldwide leading LD (Laser Diodes) / LED (Light Emitting Diodes) manufacturer with a substantial market share among other high brightness LED manufacturers and an annual turnover of approximately JPY 507.1 billion in 2023. Nichia Corporation is a Japanese company with 15 Sales Offices all over the world and some 9,300 employees worldwide.

NICHIA is the inventor of the super high brightness InGaN-based blue LED, having realized that breakthrough in 1993. On that basis we succeeded in 1996 with the invention of the phosphor converted White LED. Since then, our InGaN-based LEDs in a huge variety of emission colors, ranging from ultraviolet to amber, have substantially contributed to the diversification of LED application fields.

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