Staff Engineer, PCB Design (R6075)

What you'll do:

• Create PCB layouts for complex digital, analog, RF, high-speed, and power electronics designs.
• Plan and manage PCB stack-ups in collaboration with fabrication vendors and manufacturing engineers.
• Partner with electrical engineers to interpret schematics, routing rules, and design intent.
• Collaborate with mechanical engineers to ensure proper board form factor integration, connector positioning, placement constraints.
• Apply best practices for signal integrity, power integrity, grounding, impedance control, and thermal/EMI mitigation.
• Conduct design reviews and implement feedback to ensure manufacturability, reliability, and compliance with company standards.
• Generate and maintain manufacturing documentation, including Gerber/ODB++ files, fabrication and assembly notes and drawings.
• Work with manufacturing engineering to ensure designs meet supplier DFM requirements.

Required qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in PCB layout for production hardware (or equivalent combination of education and experience)

Preferred qualifications:

• Solid understanding of IPC standards (IPC-2221/2222, IPC-7351, etc.)
• Familiar with PCB materials and manufacturing process, and stack-up construction.
• Familiarity with controlled-impedance routing, differential pairs, length matching, and high-current power distribution.
• Experience with scripting and automation
• Experience with Altium Designer
• Experience using simulation tools to validate layout designs