Staff PCB Layout Design Engineer
About The Position
This role focuses on creating and designing the physical layout of integrated circuits (ICs) or printed circuit boards (PCBs). The engineer will be responsible for placing and routing components, traces, and other elements to ensure proper functionality and performance. A key aspect of the role involves creating and verifying the layout design through design rule checks (DRC) and design for manufacturability (DFM) checks, ensuring adherence to specifications, constraints, and manufacturing capabilities. The position requires close collaboration with other design teams, including circuit designers, system engineers, and packaging engineers, to understand and meet design requirements. Optimization of the layout for performance, power, area, and manufacturability is crucial. The engineer will also select appropriate technology and processes, optimize for signal integrity, power distribution, thermal management, and electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), and ensure the design meets performance and reliability criteria. Support for ECAD librarians in developing library parts that meet PCBA Design for Manufacturing (DFM) and GM resiliency requirements is also expected. The role involves managing PCBA prototype, EVT, and DVT assembly and test at a manufacturing contractor, collaborating with component engineers, procurement, and supply chain teams for component selection, and applying Design for Assembly (DFA) principles. Close work with manufacturing and processing engineering teams to optimize PCBA manufacturing processes and collaboration with test engineers to ensure Design for Test (DFT) is also part of the responsibilities. The engineer will create and maintain documentation and identify opportunities for process improvements, cost reduction, and quality enhancement in PCBA manufacturing. Mentoring and fostering collaboration with other engineers is also a key duty. This is a hybrid role requiring 3 days in-office and 2 days remote, with the ability to report to a local office.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Computer Engineering, or related field of study. Employer will accept a 3 or 4 year degree.
- Ten (10) years of experience as a Program Manager, Project Manager, Solution Architect, or related occupation.
- Ten (10) years of experience with creating digital and analog HW PCB layout including HDI and high-power boards.
- Ten (10) years of experience with simulation support and supportive documentation including integrating IPC standards.
- Ten (10) years of experience with layout design.
- Ten (10) years of experience with High speed Communication Buses.
- Ten (10) years of experience with Leading design and supplier teams.
- Ten (10) years of experience with Planning PCB design roadmaps.
- Eight (8) years of experience with Design tools including Mentor Graphics.
Responsibilities
- Create and design the physical layout of integrated circuits (ICs) or printed circuit boards (PCBs).
- Place and route components, traces, and other elements to ensure proper functionality and performance.
- Create and verify the layout design by conducting design rule checks (DRC) and design for manufacturability (DFM) checks.
- Ensure that the design meets the required specifications, constraints, and manufacturing capabilities.
- Create and collaborate closely with other design teams, such as circuit designers, system engineers, and packaging engineers, to understand design requirements and constraints.
- Work to optimize the layout design for performance, power, area, and manufacturability.
- Select the appropriate technology and process for the layout design based on the project requirements.
- Optimize the layout design for various factors, including signal integrity, power distribution, thermal management, and electromagnetic compatibility (EMC).
- Ensure that the layout design meets the required performance and reliability criteria.
- Support ECAD librarians by ensuring development of ECAD library parts meet PCBA Design for Manufacturing (DFM) and GM resiliency requirements.
- Ensure proper management of PCBA prototype, EVT, and DVT assembly and test at manufacturing contractor.
- Collaborate with component engineers, procurement, and supply chain teams to select appropriate components for PCBA design.
- Apply Design for Assembly (DFA) principles to ensure PCBA design is optimized for efficient assembly processes.
- Work closely with manufacturing and processing engineering teams to optimize PCBA manufacturing processes.
- Collaborate with test engineers to ensure that PCBA design is testable (Design for Test) and supports efficient testing processes.
- Create and maintain documentation related to PCBA design guidelines, manufacturing processes, and specifications.
- Identify opportunities for process improvements, cost reduction, and quality enhancement in PCBA manufacturing.
- Mentor and foster collaboration with other engineers.
Benefits
- Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.
- From day one, we're looking out for your well-being–at work and at home–so you can focus on realizing your ambitions.
- Total Rewards resources.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Associate degree
