Jobs at Gentex Corporation

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.

Manage functional safety engineering activities across assigned programs, including planning and scheduling tasks, documenting execution strategies, tracking safety KPIs, coordinating stakeholders, delegating work, and communicating progress. The role requires cybersecurity experience, knowledge of relevant Tier 1 and OEM processes and standards, analytical problem-solving abilities, proficiency with Microsoft Office, and willingness to travel domestically and internationally.

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.

Manage full-cycle technical recruiting for assigned teams: source, screen, interview, negotiate wages, hire, and onboard candidates. Partner with hiring managers, maintain requisitions, attend career and manufacturing job fairs, and support employer branding and candidate experience.

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.

Translate regulatory, customer, and stakeholder inputs into clear engineering requirements for complex systems. Analyze software issues, report and track defects, review technical documentation and requirements, participate in design and project reviews, and provide technical input to cross-functional engineering, validation, and manufacturing teams. The role requires secure wireless, embedded systems, and Bluetooth networking knowledge, with 10% travel throughout the United States.

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.

Supports selection, evaluation, supplier coordination, and lifecycle management of electronic components. Collaborates with design, manufacturing, and quality teams on troubleshooting, new product introductions, manufacturability, cost optimization, component changes, reliability analysis, and failure assessments. Maintains component data and supports APQP and PPAP activities while monitoring industry and manufacturing trends.

Supports electronic component selection, supplier evaluation, database maintenance, lifecycle management, and quality processes. Collaborates with design, manufacturing, and quality teams to troubleshoot component issues, support product introductions, optimize designs, and manage changes such as PCNs, EOLs, VAVE, and allocation. Performs basic reliability and failure analyses, including MTBF, FTA, FMEA, and DRBFM, while ensuring technical, quality, cost, and timeline requirements are met.

Perform FEA simulations and analyses to support mechanical product design. Build and run finite element models, document and communicate results, correlate with test data, maintain simulation databases, participate in design reviews, and improve simulation workflows.

The role involves developing image signal processing pipelines, conducting tests, collaborating with software teams, analyzing data, and improving image quality for Gentex's vision products.

Provide transactional and administrative customer support: handle inquiries via phone/chat/email/text, create and update support cases, process warranty and non‑warranty orders and exchanges, coordinate shipping and order issues, assist with website sales inquiries, and support departmental process improvements.