Jobs at Gentex Corporation

Develops, optimizes, and supports manufacturing processes and equipment. Responsibilities include improving quality, cost, flow, and process capability; reducing variation; designing fixtures and workstations; supporting product and equipment launches; resolving quality and safety issues; conducting root-cause analysis; and creating process documentation. The role collaborates across departments and applies continuous improvement, automation, statistical analysis, and manufacturing engineering principles.

Manages functional safety engineering activities for assigned automotive programs. Responsibilities include planning and scheduling safety tasks, documenting execution strategies, tracking program KPIs, coordinating stakeholders, delegating activities, and communicating progress. The role requires safety engineering experience, familiarity with Tier 1 and OEM processes and standards, analytical problem-solving abilities, and proficiency with Microsoft Office. Domestic and international travel may be required.

Manage full-cycle technical recruiting for assigned teams, including sourcing, screening, interviewing, wage negotiation, hiring, onboarding, and requisition management. Partner with hiring managers, present qualified candidates, attend career fairs and community events, and support recruiting initiatives. The role requires technical recruiting experience, knowledge of staffing processes and employment law, ATS and internet recruiting familiarity, Microsoft Office proficiency, and strong communication and organizational skills.

Manufacturing Engineer II improves production-line efficiency, yield, uptime, process capability, and quality. Responsibilities include optimizing equipment, leading continuous improvement initiatives, resolving technical and quality issues, responding to 8D/RMA concerns, developing control plans and FMEAs, and mentoring production support engineers. The role requires collaboration across departments, hands-on production-floor involvement, occasional vendor and customer travel, and familiarity with SolidWorks, PLCs, and manufacturing software.

Develops, optimizes, tests, and deploys classical algorithms for Gentex products. Responsibilities include collaborating with hardware and software teams, analyzing large datasets, evaluating algorithm performance, troubleshooting issues, and optimizing scalability and resource usage. Requires strong mathematics, algorithm engineering experience, and proficiency in C/C++, Python, or MATLAB, with additional experience in signal or image processing and time-series data preferred.

Develop and test embedded software across the full software development lifecycle. Design architectures, algorithms, drivers, and features for cameras, SoCs, sensors, and chipsets. Collaborate with hardware, mechanical, product, software, and systems engineering teams. Perform debugging, verification, validation, code reviews, planning, compliance activities, and process improvements. Provide technical guidance to junior team members and support recruiting activities.

Improves manufacturing-line processes, equipment performance, yield, uptime, and process capability. Leads continuous improvement initiatives, resolves quality issues, supports 8D/RMA responses, develops team problem-solving skills, and collaborates across departments to meet customer requirements. The role also contributes to control plans, FMEAs, process flow charts, and assembly drawings while mentoring production support engineers.

Supports aerospace manufacturing through production process improvement, equipment optimization, continuous improvement, quality issue resolution, and process capability enhancement. Leads line-support initiatives, develops problem-solving capabilities, addresses 8D and RMA concerns, and assists with control plans, FMEAs, process flow charts, and assembly drawings. Requires collaboration across production and engineering teams, mentoring, production-floor involvement, and occasional vendor or customer travel.

Supports systems design, architecture, testing, verification, validation, and analysis for new product development and manufacturing. The role contributes to interface definition, simulation, cross-functional design reviews, quality compliance, and continuous improvement while working within established systems engineering processes.

Develops, deploys, programs, and improves automated manufacturing systems with a focus on robotics. Responsibilities include supporting equipment, evaluating hardware and software, teaching robot points, developing robotic solutions, troubleshooting electrical and pneumatic systems, addressing obsolescence, and supporting manufacturing process launches. Requires an engineering degree or equivalent experience and at least three years designing, programming, or integrating automated equipment and robotic solutions.

Maintains manufacturing standard costs, labor and overhead rates, routings, inventory valuation, and variance analysis. Partners with Operations, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, and Finance to support product costing, profitability analysis, budgeting, forecasting, month-end close, and cost-reduction initiatives. Requires manufacturing cost accounting expertise, advanced Excel skills, inventory accounting knowledge, and experience with standard costing, labor and overhead rates, and ERP systems.

Supports the tool room by tracking work and inventory, ordering custom components, processing purchase requisitions, coordinating with suppliers and project teams, researching pricing and availability, answering questions about CAD drawings, organizing tooling components, and delivering completed work to internal customers.

Supports product strategy execution for automotive dimming glass products, including electrochromic mirrors, visors, and large-area glazings. Coordinates engineering teams, requirements, system architecture, backlog prioritization, testing, prototypes, technology research, customer technical activities, benchmarking, and product roadmaps. Collaborates with research, electrical, mechanical, software, manufacturing, design, and program management teams while supporting Agile development activities.

Supports an assigned department through career-focused continuous improvement projects with defined deliverables. Interns execute projects reliably, communicate effectively, collaborate with teams, manage time and resources, maintain confidentiality, follow company policies and safety procedures, and contribute to quality and innovation. Opportunities span engineering, IT, marketing, accounting, human resources, supply chain, manufacturing, and other disciplines.

Develops, deploys, and improves automated manufacturing systems. Responsibilities include PLC programming, software development, electrical and pneumatic schematic creation, hardware and software specification, robotics integration, equipment improvement, standardization, research, and training production support teams during launches. The role provides on-site controls engineering support for Large Area Device manufacturing across two Gentex facilities.

Leads cross-functional product development programs involving engineering changes and new or existing technologies. Manages program scope, schedules, costs, quality, delivery, customer communication, escalations, launch meetings, and process improvements while ensuring compliance with company and safety requirements.

Develop and support machine vision systems that automate manufacturing, improve product quality, and reduce costs. Responsibilities include specifying imaging hardware and lighting, developing and debugging computer vision algorithms, upgrading production systems, qualifying prototype and production solutions, documenting system functionality, analyzing performance data, and supporting vision-system downtime resolution. The role collaborates with cross-functional engineering teams and is performed onsite.

Designs, develops, troubleshoots, calibrates, and documents measurement systems, particularly optical spectroscopy equipment. Supports manufacturing downtime resolution, prototypes new systems, gathers hardware requirements, and collaborates with engineering, manufacturing, and research teams. Requires engineering fundamentals, optics knowledge, analytical problem-solving, communication skills, and Microsoft Office proficiency. Preferred experience includes measurement system analysis, design of experiments, color science, optical metrology, prototyping, electronics, mechanical concepts, laboratory or manufacturing environments, and programming.

Lead cross-functional teams to manage product development programs and engineering changes, ensuring scope, schedule, cost, quality, and customer communication for on-site manufacturing programs.

Leads engineering product development projects across mechanical, hardware, software, and systems disciplines. Coordinates requirements, technical specifications, schedules, dependencies, vendors, OEMs, customers, and cross-functional teams. Removes roadblocks, drives accountability, manages project launches, releases engineering artifacts, communicates progress to leadership, and promotes project management best practices. Also leads engineering quotations and develops product business cases.