Senior PCB Designer

Pacific Defense • Sunnyvale, CA

5d • Remote

About The Position

Pacific Defense is seeking a Senior PCB Engineer to join their small, fast-paced, and dynamic team. This role requires strong PCB design skills and experience in creating, documenting, and maintaining design processes. The ideal candidate will collaborate effectively with internal engineers (hardware & mechanical), external contractors (PCB Designers), and board fabrication/assembly houses. The position involves designing advanced electronics systems for the U.S. Department of Defense and commercial customers, focusing on Open Systems Architecture solutions for the non-kinetic fight. This includes sensing and effects solutions for various domains, leveraging open standards and rapid prototyping.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship is required due to the classified nature of the work.
• 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
• Experienced designing with high speed digital rates > 10 Gbps and > 6 GHz
• Experienced designing with high-speed memory interfaces such as DDR4
• Experienced designing boards with 16+ layers using buried and blind vias
• Experienced with controlled impedance transmission lines, including single-ended and differential stripline, microstrip and coplanar waveguide.
• Experienced creating and documenting standard processes to build symbols and footprints (decals), and ensure processes are followed
• Experienced creating and maintaining schematic symbols and PCB footprints for the entire hardware design group. May require leading a junior designer to help create and check new footprints.
• Experienced with designing to meet IPC requirements
• Experienced creating and documenting PCB design processes for both internal use and for use by contract PCB designers, and ensure processes are followed
• Experienced working closely with contract PCB designers to ensure our design processes are followed and deliverables meet our standard requirements
• Must have excellent oral and written communication skills

Nice To Haves

• Relevant industry experience
• BS or Associate’s Degree in EE/CE/CS or Computer Aided Drafting & Design

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with digital design engineers during parts placement and signal routing to ensure PCB design meets all requirements
• Collaborate with mechanical design engineers to ensure mechanical integrity as well as thermal requirements are met
• Work closely with PCB design contractors to ensure design processes and deliverables are met
• Work closely with PCB fab houses to ensure our PCB design requirements are met and resolve issues during PCB fabrication
• Work closely with contract assembly houses to clarify any design requirements and resolve issues prior to and during PCB assembly
• Manage a centralized library of footprints to ensure consistency and reliability
• Lead design reviews of internal and external PCB layouts

Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• Immediately vested 401K match
• 100% coverage options for the employee and 75% coverage for dependents’ medical, dental, vision, and life insurance premiums
• Flexible spending account for incidental health care expenses
• Generous paid time off
• Federal holidays

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree