PCB design engineer shall provide technical expertise in designing and optimizing PCB designs and to resolve PCB design, reliability, schedule and/or cost issues at internal or external PCB fabricators.
Abilities Required:
Read and interpret Electrical/Electronic Schematics.
Generate detailed Fabrication drawings of Printed Circuit Boards (PCB) and Gerber files (Artwork).
Creates hardware design document that covers design analysis, notes, and specific guidelines followed.
Architect, design and develop high performance/bandwidth PCBs.
Perform PCB layout for analog, digital and RF circuit boards through fabrication and assembly drawings generation.
Be a single point of responsibility in transferring schematic net-list design, ID and ME design into the physical PCB design based on electrical considerations such as signal integrity, power integrity, ID and mechanical integrity, EMC-EMI and safety, manufacturing industry spec and end-user usability requirement.
Create and manage PCB documentation including fabrication and assembly drawings, Gerber files.
Coordinate and approve PCB layout.
Prepare BOM and fabrication documentation and follow revision control procedures.
Bring up and test of the PCBs and auxiliary electronics.
Develop PCB layout concepts that are in line with products that involve efficient manufacturing processes.
Qualification:
Relevant Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in electrical engineering, Design, Electronics Engineering, Embedded System Engineering, ECE or ETC.
Experience:
Preferably a minimum of 3 years’ experience in using two or more of the PCB designing tools from the list given below.
Familiar with KiCAD, ISIS, ARES, Allegro or similar industry standard tools.
Familiarity with PCB failure modes and reliability in extreme environments including ability to resolve issues arising from these.
Excellent knowledge of PCB manufacturing processes and of PCB materials.
Strong knowledge of the fundamentals of digital and analog circuit design.