Senior PCB Designer (RF)

About the role

CesiumAstro is actively seeking passionate, collaborative, energetic, and forward-thinking individuals to join our team. We are looking to add a Senior PCB Designer (RF) to our team. Electronics design is a core part of the company’s business, and as such, these functions are critical. You will have the opportunity to work with and learn from a highly talented team with state-of-the-art tools. As a small company, the Cesium team “wears many hats.” Candidates should be comfortable with a varied workflow that may involve multitasking between PCB layout, library management, schematic capture, review, and other related tasks.

Responsibilities

• Perform complex RF and mixed-signal PCB layout in Altium Designer, working closely with engineers on staff.
• Own intricate and challenging PCB layouts that often feature 30 GHz RF, power, and digital on the same board, with high density and complex stackups.
• Generate and revise drawings and release packages for PCBs and assemblies.
• Manage and maintain electronic component libraries in Altium Enterprise.
• Generate and review schematic symbols and footprints.
• Maintain templates for schematics, layouts, bills-of-materials (BOMs), and other documents.

Requirements

• An Associate degree in Electronics Engineering Technology or similar.
• 7 years of experience as a PCB Designer.
• Strong experience with Altium Designer.
• Strong understanding of the technical principles of PCB layout, with a focus on high-frequency RF. This includes shielding and impedance matching among others.
• Experience with high-reliability, aerospace, and/or IPC Class 3 designs.
• Experience with advanced PCB manufacturing techniques such as blind vias and microvias.
• Strong organizational skills.
• An eye for detail and commitment to excellence.
• Comfortability with collaboration tools such as MS Teams, Confluence, and Jira.
• The ability to work well under deadlines.
• Strong digital, written, and spoken communication skills, especially in the context of working with hardware engineers and mechanical engineers to complete a layout.

Preferred Experience

• Experience managing an electronic component library.
• Experience with PLM systems such as Arena.

Pay

$37.67 - $44.51 an hour

Benefits

Full-time employment offers include company stock options and a generous benefits package including health, dental, vision, HSA, FSA, life, disability and retirement plans.