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This role blends hands-on technical layout work while following standards, design processes, as part of our small team of PCB designers. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience developing high-speed, mixed-signal, RF, and power boards for space or aerospace environments and thrive in a fast-paced, multidisciplinary setting.\nKey Responsibilities\nPCB layout design for high-speed digital, mixed-signal, RF front-end, and power management boards supporting spaceborne radar payloads and phased-array antenna modules.\nIn collaboration with the Responsible Engineer (RE), provide inputs to define and maintain board-level architecture, layer stack-ups, and routing strategies ensuring signal integrity, impedance control, and EMI/EMC compliance.\nExecute detailed component placement and routing for complex multi-layer designs including high-density BGAs, SERDES, DDR, FPGA, and high-frequency RF interconnects.\nPerform full lifecycle design ownership - from schematic collaboration and layout execution, DFM efforts through fabrication, assembly, and bring-up support.\nPartner with RE to integrate board design within mechanical, RF, thermal, and system-level constraints, ensuring mechanical compatibility, manufacturability, and serviceability.\nServe as point of contact for standardized PCB layout , DFM/DFA/DFT rules, ECAD constraint management, and centralized component-library oversight .\nPartake in formal design reviews, enforce design rules, and ensure documentation packages meet aerospace and defense standards.\nCoordinate with Contract Design Services partners to ensure alignment with internal engineering standards and deliverables. Collaborate with RE and Program Office to support PCB fabrication and assembly vendors DFM and inquiries, ensuring compliance with stack-up, impedance, and material specifications for space/defense environments.\nContribute to supply-chain readiness and material qualification efforts for high-reliability boards (e.g., polyimide, low-outgassing, or radiation-tolerant materials).\nRequired Qualifications\nAssociates or Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related discipline (or demonstrated equivalent skills and experience).\nSignificant experience of professional PCB layout experience\nSignificant experience as a principal-level individual contributor working with multi-disciplinary engineering teams delivering complex spaceborne hardware.\n Expert proficiency in Altium Designer and strong command of constraint-driven design.\nUnderstanding of impedance control, differential pair routing, grounding strategies, thermal management, and EMI/EMC mitigation.\nSignificant experience with DFM/DFA/DFT principles and close collaboration with PCB fabrication and assembly vendors.\nFamiliarity with aerospace or defense hardware design requirements (shock, vibration, thermal, radiation, reliability).\nExperience leading Altium toolchain integration, library management, and automation/scripting.\nExcellent communication skills, with ability to present to senior leadership and collaborate with customers and suppliers.\nMust be eligible to work on U.S. export-controlled projects (ITAR).\nBonus if candidates have experience and skills in the following areas:\nExperience designing PCBs for spacecraft payloads, synthetic aperture radar systems, or electronically-steered RF arrays.\nProficiency with 3D ECAD/MCAD co-design workflows and mechanical constraint management.\nKnowledge of IPC Class 3 and NASA or MIL specifications for PCB fabrication and assembly.\nExposure to high-power or high-voltage design practices and power-integrity simulation tools.\nLayout skills for Power and Signal Integrity\nKnowledge of thermal transfer through PCB materials is a plus\nExperience with high frequency RF routing principles and circuits.\nExperience developing mission-critical hardware for space and/or defense environments.\nSignificant experience designing complex multi-layer PCBs with high-speed interfaces (PCIe, DDR, SERDES, JESD, Ethernet).\nMay require occasional travel to fabrication partners or testing facilities.\nFlexibility to support critical program milestones during extended hours when necessary.\nConcerned you do not meet all the requirements? 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