Hardware Engineer, PCB Layout
About The Position
Meta is seeking a Staff PCB Layout Engineer to drive the design and delivery of complex printed circuit boards for large-scale infrastructure hardware. In this role, you will define layout architecture and establish engineering standards for high-speed digital, power delivery, and signal integrity-critical designs that power Meta's data center and infrastructure platforms. You will partner with electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, and manufacturing teams to shape board-level design strategy from concept through mass production, ensuring reliability and performance at scale.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in PCB layout design for high-speed digital systems, including boards with DDR, PCIe, or high-speed SerDes interfaces
- 8+ years of experience with industry-standard EDA layout tools such as Cadence Allegro, Mentor Xpedition, or equivalent
- Experience defining PCB stack-up configurations, impedance control strategies, and design rule constraints for high-layer-count boards
- Experience collaborating with signal integrity and power integrity teams to translate simulation results into layout implementation decisions
- Experience leading PCB layout efforts across the full product development lifecycle from schematic capture through manufacturing release
Nice To Haves
- Experience designing PCBs for data center infrastructure hardware including server, storage, or networking platforms
- Experience with high-speed (100Gbps+) signal interfaces
- Experience establishing layout centers of excellence or defining team-wide PCB design standards across multiple concurrent programs
- Experience with complex designs using custom ASICs
Responsibilities
- Define PCB layout architecture and floorplanning strategies for complex, high-layer-count boards used in infrastructure and data center hardware
- Establish and own PCB design rules, constraints, and layout guidelines for high-speed interfaces including PCIe, DDR, Ethernet, and SerDes
- Lead signal integrity and power integrity analysis in collaboration with electrical engineering teams, driving layout decisions based on simulation results
- Drive design-for-manufacturability reviews with contract manufacturers and PCB fabricators to ensure yield, reliability, and cost targets are met
- Define and maintain organization-wide PCB layout standards, templates, and best practices adopted across infrastructure hardware programs
- Collaborate with mechanical engineers to resolve board-level packaging constraints, thermal management requirements, and enclosure integration challenges
- Provide technical guidance to other layout engineers across multiple concurrent infrastructure hardware programs
- Partner with supply chain and component engineering teams to evaluate and qualify alternative components and footprints
- Lead post-layout verification activities including design rule checks, electrical rule checks, and pre-production board bring-up support
- Evaluate and introduce new EDA tooling, layout methodologies, and fabrication technologies to improve design quality and cycle time
Benefits
- bonus
- equity
- benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
