Senior PCB Designer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Collaborate with digital design engineers during component placement and signal routing to ensure that PCB design fulfills all specifications.

• Partner with mechanical design engineers to guarantee mechanical integrity and adherence to thermal requirements.

• Work closely with PCB design contractors to ensure that design processes and deliverables are achieved.

• Collaborate with PCB fabrication facilities to ensure compliance with PCB design requirements and address issues during production.

• Coordinate with contract assembly houses to clarify design specifications and resolve issues prior to and during PCB assembly.

• Manage a centralized library of footprints to maintain consistency and reliability.

• Lead design reviews for both internal and external PCB layouts.

⛳️ Requirements

• U.S. citizenship is mandatory.

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in PCB layout and routing, with a preference for experience in Allegro.

• Over 10 years of experience designing high-speed digital and mixed-signal PCBs from schematic netlists provided by other design engineers.

• Experience in designing for high-speed digital rates exceeding 10 Gbps and frequencies over 6 GHz.

• Proficiency in designing with high-speed memory interfaces, such as DDR4.

• Experience in creating boards with 16 or more layers utilizing buried and blind vias.

• Familiarity with controlled-impedance transmission lines, including single-ended and differential stripline, microstrip, and coplanar waveguide.

• Proven experience in creating and documenting standard procedures for building symbols and footprints (decals) and ensuring adherence to these processes.

• Experience in creating and maintaining schematic symbols and PCB footprints for the entire hardware design team.

• May involve mentoring a junior designer to assist in creating and verifying new footprints.

• Experience in designing to meet IPC standards.

• Competence in creating and documenting PCB design processes for internal use and contract PCB designers and ensuring compliance with these processes.

• Experience working closely with contract PCB designers to enforce design process compliance and ensure deliverables meet standard requirements.

• Exceptional oral and written communication skills.

• Relevant industry experience is essential.

• A BS or Associate’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or Computer Aided Drafting & Design is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• 401K match with immediate vesting.

• 100% coverage options for employees and 75% coverage for dependents’ medical, dental, vision, and life insurance premiums.

• Flexible spending account for incidental healthcare expenses.

• Generous paid time off policy.

• Federal holidays observed.