Automotive Interior Lighting Designer

Ford Motor Company

Interior Lighting Designer at Ford focusing on innovative lighting design for automotive interiors. Collaborating with teams to develop design visions and experiences.

Posted 5/9/2026full-timeDearborn • Missouri • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $86,600 - $166,200 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Create compelling and innovative lighting design experiences and visions for Interior Design Projects.
Create Human Centered Design experiences utilizing lighting as a creative medium.
Coordinate the work of other design personnel to achieve holistic interior design visions.
Create futured lighting design visions, focused on the building our brand.
Span digital and physical (software and hardware) thinking.
Problems solve around topics of connectivity, mobility, and consumer segments.

Requirements

What you’ll need

A portfolio to share focused on Automotive Lighting (interior)
Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design, Transportation Design, or similar
4+ years’ Automotive Interior Design experience; including experience specific to lighting conceptual design and final product execution.
Ability to interpret customer needs and global trends into compelling lighting design visions.
Ability to work independently and provide strong technical aesthetic judgment to lead team members.
Awareness of global automotive lighting technology, and trends to ensure Ford competes with the ability to lead.
Demonstrated creative exterior/interior/component design perceptions and capability. A design portfolio (pdf) must be provided upon application.
Collaborate with Engineering, Suppliers and other partners to progress the design development.
Must have exceptional design intuition, strong problem-solving skills and a superior ability to visually communicate through sketches, and rendering.
4+ years of experience translating 2D to 3D and think three-dimensionally with a strong emphasis on proportions and a refined sense of form also required.
Familiarizes self and maintains interest with design trends within and across design professions and global cultures (automotive, fashion, architectural, etc.)
Outstanding teamwork, leadership, visual, written, and verbal communication skills.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
Tuition assistance
Established and active employee resource groups
Paid time off for individual and team community service
A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

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Hard Skills & Tools

lighting designhuman centered designautomotive interior designconceptual design2D to 3D translationvisual communicationrenderingdesign intuitionproportionsform refinement

Soft Skills

problem-solvingteamworkleadershipcommunicationindependent worktechnical aesthetic judgmentcollaborationcreativitycustomer needs interpretationdesign perception

Certifications

Bachelor’s degree in Industrial DesignBachelor’s degree in Transportation Design