Optical Principle Scientist - China / Shanghai Job in Shanghai / China, Other

Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands is a diversified Health and Well-being company, focused on improving people’s lives through timely innovations.

As a world leader in healthcare, lifestyle and lighting, Philips integrates technologies and design into people-centric solutions.

Optical Principle Scientist - China / Shanghai Job Description

Group Innovation–PRCN LAS-Principle Scientist,Optical

PURPOSE目的
To grow the LED lighting business of Philips in China, we are seeking a highly motivated individual to join the Lighting System & Application department of Philips Research Asia- Shanghai as a scientist of lighting application and optical engineering.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES主要工作职责
Your responsibilities will include:

• Actively collaborating with innovation partners within and outside of Philips to enhance and to accelerate the innovation
• Understanding customer insights, market trend and technical trend in the lighting application field and identifying technical gaps;
• Working closely with colleagues, partners and customers to develop differentiators that can fulfill the customer unmet needs;
• Propose new technologies and generate differentiating solutions to meet business needs
• Understand the urban lighting requirements, and translate it into the technical challenges in the system design.
• Lead the urban project to create the innovation in LED urban lighting system solutions, from LED chip level to lighting system solution level
• Lead the optical innovation for urban luminaire to meet both functional and design requirements, and benchmarking with existing luminaire solutions.
• Working cross functional within R&D to challenge & improve existing knowledge on lighting  with new technologies
• Well communicating with business partners and delivering high quality results in the forms of patent invention, technical report, and the proof of the concept demonstrations/prototypes etc;

• Broad understanding of norms and knowledge of various lighting applications.
• Broad understanding of norms and knowledge of optical design and optical system
• Understand customer insights and manage uncertainties;
• Identify and discover the major technical challenges along the industrial trend
• Generate innovative ideas and develop technical solutions to fulfill the unmet needs.

Optical Principle Scientist - China / Shanghai Job Requirements

岗位要求
As a successful candidate:
You will be a senior research scientist as the senior system architect for luminaire solutions who is leading the innovations in LED luminaires for outdoor applications.
Master / Ph.D. degree in optics, especially in non-imaging optics design or related field of study;
Proficient with optical design work with optical design software such as light tools
Proficient with lighting application research and design with some specific lighting application design software such as Dialux,  AGI32
Working experience: >3 years working experience as system architect in LED luminaire design,  in optical design, experience and knowledge of architectural lighting and lighting perception will be a strong plus.

Competency and Skills:
Self-motivated, pro-active behaviour, architectural thinking, open-minded, result oriented and quality driven; Strong problem solving skill; Good communication and presentation skills; good spoken and written English (CET level 6 or higher) and Chinese (Mandarin); quick learning ability; strong team spirit.

Travel Frequency出差频率:          < 25%

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