Lead PCB Designer

Description

• Collaborate with the Responsible Engineer to define and maintain board-level architecture, layer stack-ups, and routing strategies ensuring signal integrity, impedance control, and EMI/EMC compliance.
• Execute detailed component placement and routing for complex multi-layer designs including high-density BGAs, SERDES, DDR, FPGA, and high-frequency RF interconnects.
• Coordinate with Contract Design Services partners to ensure alignment with internal engineering standards and deliverables.
• Participate in formal design reviews, enforce design rules, and ensure documentation packages meet aerospace and defense standards.
• Serve as the point of contact for standardized PCB layout, DFM/DFA/DFT rules, ECAD constraint management, and centralized component-library oversight.
• Support PCB fabrication and assembly vendors DFM and inquiries, ensuring compliance with stack-up, impedance, and material specifications for space/defense environments.
• Own the full lifecycle design, from schematic collaboration and layout execution through fabrication, assembly, and bring-up support.
• Integrate board design within mechanical, RF, thermal, and system-level constraints, ensuring mechanical compatibility, manufacturability, and serviceability.
• Design and layout high-speed digital, mixed-signal, RF front-end, and power management boards supporting spaceborne radar payloads and phased-array antenna modules.
• Contribute to supply-chain readiness and material qualification efforts for high-reliability boards.

Requirements

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Expert in PCB layout and Altium Designer
• Significant experience designing complex multi-layer PCBs with high-speed interfaces (PCIe, DDR, SERDES).
• Skilled in Altium toolchain integration, ECAD libraries, and automation
• Knowledge of thermal transfer through PCB materials.
• Flexibility to support critical program milestones during extended hours when necessary.
• Familiarity with aerospace/defense standards and environmental testing (shock, vibration, thermal, radiation, reliability)
• Knowledge of IPC Class 3 and NASA or MIL specifications for PCB fabrication and assembly.
• Experience with high-frequency RF routing principles and circuits.
• Experience developing mission-critical hardware for space and/or defense environments.
• Proficiency with 3D ECAD/MCAD co-design workflows and mechanical constraint management.
• Exposure to high-power or high-voltage design practices and power-integrity simulation tools.
• Experience with DFM/DFA/DFT and vendor collaboration
• Associate’s or Bachelor’s in Electrical/Computer Engineering or equivalent experience
• Experience designing PCBs for spacecraft payloads, synthetic aperture radar systems, or electronically-steered RF arrays.
• Eligible for US DoD TS/SCI clearance
• Strong knowledge of constraint-driven design, impedance control, grounding, thermal management, EMI/EMC mitigation
• Eligibility to work on U.S. export-controlled projects (ITAR).

Benefits

• Insurance (Basic/Supplemental Life & AD&D)
• Transportation benefits
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
• Medical, dental & vision
• Health & Dependent Care Spending Accounts (HSA & DCFSA)
• Short and long-term disability
• Employee Assistance Program

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance