Printed Circuit Board Designer

Electronics Design Engineers with experience in system and Printed Circuit board (PCB) development and design. The design engineer will be involved in all aspects of the electronics design from conception through end-of-life, working alongside a team of industry experts to shape the future of high-performance networking solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

Work with software, mechanical, ASIC, manufacturing, marketing, and project management teams to develop platform and board level architecture to address program requirements, schedules, and cost targets.

Assess available design options to implement the system architecture.

Evaluate and select components to support the design goals

Develop board and system level schematics and layout rules

Lead, guide, and support board layout activities

Develop the necessary engineering documentation (schematic, design/layout rules, FPGA code, source code, etc.) to support the design implementation

Support software engineering to develop and integrate FW

Lead, guide and support test engineers to validate system design

Support compliance and regulatory testing

Support the manufacturing team in all aspects of product manufacturing from prototypes to production, procurement, component management, and quality control

Preferred qualifications:

Experience with Cadence* Concept* schematic and Allegro* Computer Aided Design (CAD) tools

Experience with board power distribution

Experience with FPGAs and programmable logic devices (PLD)

Experience with programming skills in tools such as: C, Visual Basic, Perl, TCL, RTL, etc.

Experience with Signal integrity simulation tools

Experience with Power integrity tools

Familiarity with timing analysis and functional simulation

Completion of several board and system development projects

Minimum qualifications

BS or MS in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering

3+ years of experience with Platform/test card specification, design, debug and bring up in lab

Demonstrated strength in digital board design, basic signal integrity, board layout tools, and schematic capture tools (ORCAD, Cadence, Mentor Graphics)

Demonstrated strength with system level debug and determining root cause of technical issues

Demonstrated strength with lab equipment including, but not limited to: DMM, oscilloscopes, and logic analyzers

Strong communication and interpersonal skills.