Sr. PCB Design Engineer

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Job Description

This Sr. PCB Design Engineer role focuses on end-to-end development of highly complex, high-speed printed circuit board designs, from initial concept and schematic creation through manufacturing release. You will work in a dynamic, collaborative, multi-site engineering environment, partnering closely with cross-functional teams to deliver cutting-edge PCB solutions that meet demanding performance, quality, and manufacturability requirements.

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Responsibilities

• Create schematics based on customer-defined and system-level specifications, ensuring electrical performance and manufacturability requirements are met.
• Develop accurate component logical symbols and PCB footprints for new and existing parts, suitable for assembly and test houses.
• Set up and maintain electrical, physical, and DFM design rules within Constraint Manager to support complex, multi-layer board designs.
• Perform routing assessments and project feasibility studies to evaluate design complexity, risk, and schedule impact.
• Define assembly specifications and create detailed documentation to support manufacturing and test activities.
• Create complete assembly and test packages for manufacturing, including fabrication files, drawings, and supporting documentation.
• Execute full PCB design activities from data entry and schematic capture through layout, verification, and fabrication file generation.
• Generate cost estimates to support marketing quotations and guide product and customer decision-making.
• Attend product development meetings and critical kickoff meetings for initial product launches to align design activities with program objectives.
• Define and set up CAD packages and design environments for off-shore design centers to ensure consistency and quality across sites.
• Use Teamcenter to generate and manage part numbers, bills of materials (BOMs), and engineering change notices (ECNs) throughout the design lifecycle.
• Perform thorough QA inspections on final design data to ensure completeness, accuracy, and adherence to quality standards.
• Work closely with simulation engineers to meet signal integrity (SI) and power integrity (PI) requirements for high-speed designs.
• Collaborate with design-for-test (DFT) engineers to resolve test access issues and ensure robust test coverage.
• Partner with design-for-assembly (DFA) engineers to identify and resolve assembly issues prior to or during build.
• Coordinate with design-for-manufacturing (DFM) engineers to identify and resolve PCB fabrication process concerns and optimize yield.
• Create interface board CAD templates for customer use to streamline future design activities and integration.
• Own layout quality, schedules, and deliverables, taking technical responsibility for complex PCB designs with minimal supervision.
• Establish layout standards and promote best practices within the PCB design team to improve consistency and efficiency.
• Address technical questions from PCB fabrication shops related to plating processes, stack-ups, and fabrication details.
• Handle the full design lifecycle from receiving schematics to manufacturing release, ensuring all design, documentation, and data outputs are complete.
• Perform other related PCB design and documentation duties as assigned.
• Occasionally travel for training, off-site meetings, or product validation activities as needed.

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Essential Skills

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering or equivalent technical degree.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in PCB layout and automated test systems.
• Extensive hands-on experience with Cadence Allegro PCB Editor (including version 17.2) for complex board layout.
• Strong proficiency in constraint management within Allegro for highly complex, multi-layer boards (e.g., up to 40-layer designs).
• Demonstrated experience with high-speed PCB design at 1 Gbps and above, with exposure to designs approaching 40 Gbps.
• Expertise in controlled impedance routing, including creation of controlled impedance stack-ups.
• Strong experience with differential pair routing, equal length routing, and length matching to meet timing and signal integrity constraints.
• Ability to understand and apply electrical properties of circuits, including critical nets, high current paths, impedance control requirements, and pin delays.
• Ability to read and comprehend complex schematics, understand circuit function, update properties, and create simple schematics from pin lists.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat for documentation, communication, and rep