Fidus Systems

Manager

• Manage a team of PCB layout designers to deliver complex, multi-layer, high speed PCBs using Cadence Allegro PCB Design, Mentor Expedition/PADS or Altium.
• Recruit and retain top-notch team of layout designers to ensure high quality designs in providing solutions for our customers.
• Collaborate with Resource Management to identify and assign PCB designers for new projects based on customer and project requirements.
• Perform PCB layout design, including setting up design constraints, component placement, routing, and impedance/length matching for optimization of high-speed/RF designs in close collaboration with electrical, mechanical, and signal integrity designers.
• Provide project support, manage project escalations, and deliver post-project technical support to customers.
• Work closely with PCB fabricators to resolve technical issues and ensure compliance with DFA and DFM practices and lead DFM reviews, until closure to ensure the design is ready for high volume manufacturing.
• Stay current on industry PCB design practices and implement new techniques and technologies to grow the PCB design team capabilities, optimize PCB cost, accelerate delivery time, and improve design quality.
• Manage and participate in PCB design and footprint reviews to ensure adherence to Fidus quality standards.
• Manage footprint libraries and PCB CAD licenses.
• Provide pre-sales technical support to the business and sales teams on project scope, schedule, effort estimates, and deliverables.
• Establish training plans and mentoring junior/intermediate PCB designers to grow the capabilities of the PCB design team aligned with company objectives.

Technical Manager, Layout