Lead PCB Designer (Starshield) - Hawthorne CA
Responsibilities
Lead and hire a team of high-performance printed circuit board (PCB) designers
Establish priorities and projects with clear scope and objectives
Develop growth plans for team members to develop their capabilities
Review and guide new projects to maintain cost and performance objectives
Drive the development of the electronic data management solutions
Determine layer stackup; perform component package selection, component placement, routing feasibility studies, and signal routing of digital, analog, RF, and power conversion of PCBs
Create and release documentation for fabrication of PCBs
Collaborate with internal teams and PCB vendors to continually improve design rules, constraints, and design for test and manufacture guidelines
Standardize and maintain release of documentation for fabrication of PCBs
Utilize PCB design tools; maintain and evaluate new tools, and train team members to use tools
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline
2+ years of PCB design experience
1+ years of experience leading teams and/or projects
Qualifications
- Experience designing boards for high volume production and executing on tight deadlines
- Deep understanding of DFM/DFA/DFT (design for manufacturing, design for assembly, design for test) rules and PCB fabrication process
- Mastery of tools such as Valor Enterprise
- Experience with PCB layout and routing in one or all of the following areas: modern passive and active electronics components, surface-mount, RF components, ball-grid array and similar fine pitch, or high pin density components
- Experience with ECAD libraries and library configuration management
- Experience with Mentor Xpedition and/or Altium Designer
- Experience with layout of mixed analog and digital designs, high speed buses, FPGA, DRAM and CPU designs, power supplies, DC-DC converters, transmission lines, impedance-controlled traces, and power traces
- Experience with MIL-STD, commercial and IPC standards and design
- Experience with scripting and automation
- Professional experience leading a team, while providing technical direction and strong mentoring skills
- Excellent communication skills for articulating complex concepts, problems, and solutions across all levels within the organization
- Able to work extended hours and weekends as needed to support critical path development and/or critical on-orbit operations
Skills
Able to work on sensitive SpaceX missions
Benefits
Active TS/SCI clearance or the ability to obtain and maintain one
Pay
$135,000.00 - $195,000.00/per year