Senior PCB Designer

1 month ago


Sunnyvale, California, United States Pacific Defense Full time
Job Overview

Pacific Defense is seeking a highly skilled Senior PCB Designer to join our team. As a key member of our design team, you will be responsible for creating, documenting, and maintaining design processes for our advanced electronics systems.

The ideal candidate will have 10+ years of experience in PCB layout and routing, with a strong background in designing high-speed digital and mixed signal PCBs. You will work closely with internal and external designers, contractors, and fabrication/assembly houses to ensure our design processes are followed and deliverables meet our standard requirements.

We offer a competitive salary, an immediately vested 401K match, and a comprehensive benefits package. Pacific Defense is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers qualified applicants for employment regardless of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected factor.

Key Responsibilities
  • Collaborate with digital design engineers to ensure PCB design meets all requirements
  • Collaborate with mechanical design engineers to ensure mechanical integrity and thermal requirements are met
  • Work closely with PCB design contractors to ensure design processes and deliverables are met
  • Manage a centralized library of footprints to ensure consistency and reliability
  • Lead design reviews of internal and external PCB layouts
Requirements
  • 10+ years of PCB layout and routing experience with Allegro preferred
  • 10+ years designing high-speed digital and mixed signal PCBs starting from schematic netlists generated by other design engineers
  • Experience designing with high-speed digital rates > 10 Gbps and > 6 GHz
  • Experience designing with high-speed memory interfaces such as DDR4
  • Experience designing boards with 16+ layers using buried and blind vias
  • Experience with controlled impedance transmission lines, including single-ended and differential stripline, microstrip, and coplanar waveguide
  • Experience creating and documenting standard processes to build symbols and footprints (decals), and ensure processes are followed
  • Experience creating and maintaining schematic symbols and PCB footprints for the entire hardware design group
  • Experience designing to meet IPC requirements
  • Experience creating and documenting PCB design processes for both internal use and for use by contract PCB designers, and ensure processes are followed
  • Experience working closely with contract PCB designers to ensure our design processes are followed and deliverables meet our standard requirements
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills
Education
  • Requirement: Relevant industry experience
  • Preferred: BS or Associate's Degree in EE/CE/CS or Computer Aided Drafting & Design

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