PCB Design Engineer
$115,500–$162,000 year
On-siteTorrance, California, United States
Job Summary
Own PCB layout from released schematics through fabrication release, managing layer stackup, controlled-impedance and RF routing, and flex/rigid-flex interconnects for airside and ground control hardware. Maintain the Altium library and design standards, ensuring manufacturability and reliability for every shipped board. Produce complete fabrication and assembly documentation to IPC Class 2 and 3 standards, coordinating directly with vendors on stackup confirmation and design-for-manufacturing feedback. Establish departmental design standards, review peer layouts, and manage external layout resources during design surges. Requires 7+ years of production PCB experience, onsite work at Torrance headquarters, and U.S. eligibility for export-controlled data.
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of dedicated printed circuit board layout and design experience on hardware that reached production
- Expert proficiency with Altium Designer, including workspace and library management
- Recent version experience with Altium Designer
- Demonstrated personal ownership of a company or corporate CAD library: creating and maintaining footprints and symbols, deriving land patterns, and enforcing naming and revision standards across a design team
- Boards and drawing packages designed to IPC standards, including IPC-2221 and IPC-2222 for design, IPC-6012 Class 2 and Class 3 for board qualification, IPC-A-610 and J-STD-001 for assembly acceptability, and IPC-7351 for land patterns
- Flex and rigid-flex design experience, including bend area construction, stiffeners and coverlay, designed per IPC-2223 and qualified to IPC-6013
- RF and high-speed digital layout expertise: transmission line theory and topology selection (microstrip, stripline, coplanar waveguide), controlled impedance, differential pairs, length and skew matching, reference plane and return path integrity, and via strategy
- Experience defining layer stackups and closing impedance calculations directly with fabrication vendors
- Fluency producing and releasing complete manufacturing output packages, with a track record of first-pass fabrication and assembly success
- A degree in electronics or electrical engineering, or an equivalent depth of hands-on layout experience in place of a degree
- Ability to work onsite at our Torrance headquarters
- Eligibility to work with export-controlled technical data as a U.S. person
Desired Qualifications
- Altium 365 or Concord Pro workspace administration, managed components, and revision control of ECAD data
- IPC CID or CID+ certification
- ECAD to MCAD co-design with SOLIDWORKS or Creo, including STEP model exchange and enclosure fit checks before prototype
- Signal and power integrity analysis exposure, such as HyperLynx, Ansys SIwave, or field solver based stackup and impedance tools
- HDI construction, sequential lamination, microvias, via-in-pad, back-drilling, high layer count (greater than 16) and thicker board stackups
- UAV, avionics, defense, medical, or other high-reliability applications where vibration, thermal extremes, and field reliability drive layout decisions
- Scripting or automation of repetitive CAD and library tasks
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