PCB Layout Designer

MiniMed • Los Angeles, CA

7d • $68,000 - $125,000

About The Position

At MiniMed, you can begin a lifelong career of exploration and innovation, while helping make a difference in the lives of people living with diabetes around the globe. You'll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation for a more connected, compassionate world.

As a Printed Circuit Board Design at MiniMed, you won’t just be routing traces; you will partner closely with our Electrical, RF, and Antenna engineers from concept to production, providing layout expertise to deliver hardware known for its reliability, scalability, and cost.

This role is responsible for executing PCB designs that meet electrical, mechanical, and manufacturing requirements with a high degree of accuracy and completeness. You will work closely with Electrical engineers through iterative design cycles.

Requirements

• Requires high school diploma or equivalent (United States), vocational or technical education or certification (all other countries)
• Requires minimum of 10 years of relevant experience

Nice To Haves

• Expertise with Altium Designer Tools
• Experience with advanced PCB constructs such as blind, buried, micro and stacked vias

Responsibilities

• Detail oriented PCB Designer with experience in schematic capture, high density multilayer PCB layout, with flex and rigid flex circuit assemblies, RF and high-speed signal routing, impedance control, length matching and crosstalk mitigation
• Works with high-speed electronics, multi MCU systems for low power wearable devices, and class 3 medical products
• Creates component footprints, models and manages component libraries
• Places components, routes signals, generates Gerber and ODB++ files preferably using Altium. Determines optimum layer stackup for PCB design
• Experience with Altium Designer Schematic Capture or similar (Orcad), Altium A365 and PCB Layout Tools
• Knowledge of industry standards such as IPC for board design.
• Collaborates with internal cross functional and external PCB manufacturing houses with DFM activities to resolve technical queries (EQs)
• Works with CAD models to perform 3D clearance checks against Mechanical enclosures
• Skilled in optimizing designs for manufacturability, cost, and performance
• Generates Gerber, documents design and creates Fabrication and Assembly drawings. In depth understanding with ASME / ANSI for documentation

Benefits

• health, dental, and vision insurance
• Health Savings Account
• Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
• life insurance
• long-term disability leave
• dependent daycare spending account
• incentive plans
• 401(k) plan with company match
• short-term disability coverage
• paid time off and holidays
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Employee Assistance Program
• Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement
• Capital Accumulation Plan

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: High school or GED