PCB Design Engineer

Expleo Group

PCB Design Engineer providing PCB design services with Expleo for high reliability applications in Plymouth. Working on cutting edge technology projects with a remote work option after orientation.

Posted 5/28/2026full-timePlymouth • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Assembly

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Create new components as needed adding to the client library
Perform component placement whilst trading off the myriad of requirements that may conflict
Generate routing whilst minimising noise/EMI
Implement strategies for management of thermal issues
Adhere to the specific client design rules and understands the capabilities of specified PCB manufacturer to ensure a high yield
Work with mechanical designers to ensure electronics and mechanical parts mesh perfectly

Requirements

What you’ll need

Degree level qualification in Electrical/Electronic Engineering
A lower qualification would be acceptable for example HNC/HND should the candidate be able to demonstrate significant demonstrable experience in lieu
Understands and ensures traces are wide enough for the current they will carry and spaced adequately to avoid shorting or interference.
Able to optimise the design to consider manufacturing & assembly (DFM/DFA)
Able to optimise the design to consider test (DFT)
Maintains consistency in component orientation to reduce assembly errors and improve inspection.
Able to place board-to-wire and board to board connectors appropriately.
Able to group components with related functions together to shorten trace lengths and simplify routing.
Understands and able to place decoupling capacitors appropriately
Understand segregation of analogue and digital circuits
Understand and able to accommodate EMI/EMC considerations deploying solid ground planes and shielding as appropriate
Able to locate high-power components appropriately or deploy strategies to transfer heat away from the component(s)/board.
Able to optimise the design to keep heat-generating components away from sensitive components and ensure adequate spacing between them to avoid hot spots
Able to route high-speed signals appropriately using uninterrupted ground planes to maintain controlled impedance.
Understands and able to keep high-speed signal paths as short and direct as possible
Understands and able to deploy solid ground planes to provide stable reference points and a clear return path for signals, helping to reduce noise and interference
Understands layer stack design criteria
Experience in PCB design delivering complex designs
Proficiency using Altium/KiCad.
Familiarity with STM32, PCI Bus & d.c./d.c. conversion is desirable
Experience of delivery high reliability electronics for hostile environments in industries such as military, marine, aerospace, or rail is desirable
SC Cleared

Benefits

Comp & perks

Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and our peers through good times and challenges
We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
Competitive company benefits
Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo
As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to:
Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
Communicating and promoting vacancies
Offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job
Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work

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Hard Skills & Tools

PCB designDFMDFADFTEMIEMCthermal managementhigh-speed signal routingcomponent placementcircuit segregation

Soft Skills

problem-solvingattention to detailcollaborationcommunication

Certifications

Degree in Electrical/Electronic EngineeringHNCHNDSC Clearance