Pramod C Venkataraju

Sr Design engineer, Lighting @ Lucid Motors

About

Automotive exterior lighting professional with 16 years of experience designing and delivering innovative lighting systems for leading OEMs including Ford, Rivian, Tesla, GM, and Stellantis. Specialized in product design, reverse engineering, and program leadership across headlamps, fog lamps, tail lamps, and related components. Proven leader of global, cross-functional teams across the U.S., Europe, and Japan, with deep expertise in CATIA V5 and PLM tools such as Enovia and Teamcenter. Known for driving projects from concept to production while balancing quality, cost, and regulatory requirements. Passionate about mentoring talent, optimizing designs, and delivering high-quality, production-ready automotive lighting solutions.

Country

United States

City

Newark

Industry

Information Technology & Services

Skill

product cost optimization, Advanced Certificate in Program Management, Manufacturing Processes, Molding (Process), Injection Molding, Design Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (DFMEA), Exterior Design, Mechanical Engineering, PLM Tools, Design, Engineering Design, Product Development, Design Engineering, Microsoft Office, Presentation Skills, Computer-Aided Design (CAD), Artificial Intelligence (AI), q-checker, Production Launch, Systems Design

Experience

Sr Design engineer, Lighting

Lucid Motors

2026-1 - Present · 9 mos

Newark, California, United States

exterior lighting design release engineer @ Flex-N-Gate

Infosys

2016-2 - 2026-1 · 10 yrs

Allen Park, Michigan, United States

9+Years experience in Automotive domain, Expertise in exterior lighting including front and rear combination lamps, signal lamps Successfully led complex Design lighting programs for OEMs, such as Ford, Rivian, Tesla, GM, and Stellantis Expertise in cross-functional team co-ordination with comprehensive understanding of product lifecycle, design, engineering, Toolshop, Supplier, Plants etc. Highly skilled in advanced CAD design (CATIA V5), including 3D & 2Dmodeling, reverse engineering and Benchmarking associated. Expertise in DFMEA, DV, PV,DVP&R, BOM development, prototype builds, and regulatory tests for including FMVSS, ECE, and CMVSS I possess extensive experience in managing complex product data using PLM/PDM tools like Teamcenter, Enovia / EPDM, change management processes (DCP, ECR, ECO) and Engineering documentation Expertise in Tolerance-Stack up and GD&T Knowledge of FEA, CFD, RFQ, NAFTA, VAVE, TVM, DFM, DFA, PPAP, APQP, FMVSS, CMVSS, ECE, DMU Sound understanding of manufacturing Processes, tooling and material selection for Injection Molding, Plastics, Composites Excellent knowledge in VSA/DVA analysis, Rendering (VRED), Scanning (Polyworks & Geomagic), SharePoint, KBE Tools (Knowledge based Engineering), LCA on Carbon foot print for Automotive components, AI for product development

Engineering Team Lead - Hitachi Shock absorbers

Infosys

2014-5 - 2016-2 · 1 yr 10 mos

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Reverse engineered over 200 Shock absorbers from Physical sample to 3D CAD and production drawings. Quality check on Scanning (Point cloud data quality) and Conversion Quality (NURBS Surface quality) Creation of 3D CAD for Complex Spring seat and Shock absorber components in CATIA V5 using NURBS surface data with Creation of 2D drawings Creation of deviation report using Polyworks software to confirm the Quality of Scan and CAD SPOC for interaction with onsite coordinator Complete responsibility for deliverable, Data management, scheduling & tracking and knowledge sharing

Engineering Analyst- For Schaeffler Clutch

Infosys

2013-4 - 2014-5 · 1 yr 2 mos

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Benchmarking of four wheeler clutch, Design activities, tear down of all the benchmarked clutches, Creation of BOM and identify the manufacturing process including heat treatment and surface protections, Creation of reports on benchmarking, Dimensional, Material, Performance, concepts and costing. Development of concept CAD model in CATIA V5.

Design Engineer - JCI/Adient, Seating systems

Infosys

2011-11 - 2013-4 · 1 yr 6 mos

Mysore, Karnataka, India

The job mainly involves design and development of automotive seating systems. The activities comprises of packaging studies, feasibility analysis, concept and detailed design. It also includes creation of layouts for showing Safety, Comfort, and Craftsmanship, Environment and Packaging compliances, using six sigma layout templates provided by the customer. Data management of all seat variants in ENOVIA VPM, mentor a team of 2-3 people and send quality deliverable to the client. Worked on complete seat activities for Nissan P42J & K programs