Senior Staff PCB Designer
Shield AI
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • California, Massachusetts, Texas • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $175,136 - $262,704 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
Assembly
About the role
- Create PCB layouts for complex digital, analog, RF, high-speed, and power electronics designs.
- Plan and manage PCB stack-ups in collaboration with fabrication vendors and manufacturing engineers.
- Partner with electrical engineers to interpret schematics, routing rules, and design intent.
- Collaborate with mechanical engineers to ensure proper board form factor integration, connector positioning, placement constraints.
- Apply best practices for signal integrity, power integrity, grounding, impedance control, and thermal/EMI mitigation.
- Conduct design reviews and implement feedback to ensure manufacturability, reliability, and compliance with company standards.
- Generate and maintain manufacturing documentation, including Gerber/ODB++ files, fabrication and assembly notes and drawings.
- Work with manufacturing engineering to ensure designs meet supplier DFM requirements.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in PCB layout for production hardware (or equivalent combination of education and experience)
- Solid understanding of IPC standards (IPC-2221/2222, IPC-7351, etc.)
- Familiar with PCB materials and manufacturing process, and stack-up construction.
- Familiarity with controlled-impedance routing, differential pairs, length matching, and high-current power distribution.
- Experience with scripting and automation
- Experience with Altium Designer
- Experience using simulation tools to validate layout designs
Benefits
- Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
- Temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
PCB layoutsignal integritypower integritygroundingimpedance controlthermal mitigationEMI mitigationscriptingautomationcontrolled-impedance routing
Soft skills
collaborationcommunicationplanningmanagementdesign review
Certifications
IPC-2221IPC-2222IPC-7351