{"id":697567,"url":"https://alion.io/job/neros-pcb-design-engineer","title":"PCB Design Engineer","company":{"id":678223,"name":"Neros","domain":"neros.tech","url":"https://alion.io/company/neros-2","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":86,"open_postings":26,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.577,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":56,"computed_at":"2026-10-29T05:49:05Z"}},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":null,"employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Torrance, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":136500,"max":191500,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":191500},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[{"name":"Altium Designer","optional":false},{"name":"Ansys SIwave","optional":true},{"name":"HyperLynx","optional":true},{"name":"SolidWorks","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-08-12T15:31:26Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-06","last_verified_at":"2026-10-29T18:29:15Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":78,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":78},"description":"Who we are\nNeros is a defense technology company rebuilding America’s drone industrial base. We design and manufacture high-performance unmanned systems that are tested in combat, iterated at startup speed, and built at massive scale. Our team culture is fast, hands-on, and obsessed with closing the gap between design and deployment.\nAs drones transform the character of warfare, Neros is delivering the systems the West needs to compete on the modern battlefield and deter the adversaries of democracy. We’re hiring engineers, operators, and builders who want to move fast, take on extreme ownership, and get capability into the hands of warfighters in months, not years.\nWhat you will be doing\nAs a PCB Design Engineer at Neros, you will own printed circuit board layout across every product line we build, from the compact airside electronics inside our aircraft to the ground control hardware. You will take released schematics from our design engineers and own everything downstream: layer stackup, placement, controlled-impedance and RF routing, flex and rigid-flex interconnect, and the complete fabrication and assembly drawing package. You will also own our Altium library and the design standards the rest of the team works inside, which means the manufacturability and reliability of every board we ship starts with your work.\nResponsibilities\nOwn PCB layout on assigned designs from released schematic through fabrication release, including board outline, layer stackup definition, component placement, routing, and design rule closure\nRead and interpret schematics from the design engineers and apply the layout practices appropriate to each design\nOwn the Altium library: footprints, schematic symbols, land patterns, 3D component bodies, design rule and board templates, output jobs, naming conventions, and revision control\nImplement high-speed digital, RF, precision analog, and power sections on the same board, applying controlled impedance, differential pair and length matching, and disciplined return path design\nDesign flexible and rigid-flex circuits, including bend area construction, stiffeners, coverlay, and ZIF terminations\nProduce complete fabrication and assembly documentation to IPC Class 2 and Class 3, including fab and assembly drawings, Gerber X2 or ODB++, NC drill, netlists, paste and assembly data, and BOM outputs\nWork directly with fabrication and assembly vendors on stackup and impedance confirmation, DFM and DFA feedback, and resolution of manufacturing issues\nEstablish and maintain the department's PCB design standards, review layouts produced by others, and coordinate external layout resources during design surges\nYou should have the following\n4+ years of dedicated printed circuit board layout and design experience on hardware that reached production\nExpert proficiency with Altium Designer, including workspace and library management. Recent version experience preferred\nDemonstrated personal ownership of a company or corporate CAD library: creating and maintaining footprints and symbols, deriving land patterns, and enforcing naming and revision standards across a design team\nBoards and drawing packages designed to IPC standards, including IPC-2221 and IPC-2222 for design, IPC-6012 Class 2 and Class 3 for board qualification, IPC-A-610 and J-STD-001 for assembly acceptability, and IPC-7351 for land patterns\nFlex and rigid-flex design experience, including bend area construction, stiffeners and coverlay, designed per IPC-2223 and qualified to IPC-6013\nRF and high-speed digital layout expertise: transmission line theory and topology selection (microstrip, stripline, coplanar waveguide), controlled impedance, differential pairs, length and skew matching, reference plane and return path integrity, and via strategy\nExperience defining layer stackups and closing impedance calculations directly with fabrication vendors\nFluency producing and releasing complete manufacturing output packages, with a track record of first-pass fabrication and assembly success\nA degree in electronics or electrical engineering, or an equivalent depth of hands-on layout experience in place of a degree. We care about the boards you have shipped, not the credential\nAbility to work onsite at our Torrance headquarters, and eligibility to work with export-controlled technical data as a U.S. person\nNice to Have\nAltium 365 or Concord Pro workspace administration, managed components, and revision control of ECAD data\nIPC CID or CID+ certification\nECAD to MCAD co-design with SOLIDWORKS or Creo, including STEP model exchange and enclosure fit checks before prototype\nSignal and power integrity analysis exposure, such as HyperLynx, Ansys SIwave, or field solver based stackup and impedance tools\nHDI construction, sequential lamination, microvias, via-in-pad, back-drilling, high layer count (greater than 16) and thicker board stackups\nUAV, avionics, defense, medical, or other high-reliability applications where vibration, thermal extremes, and field reliability drive layout decisions\nScripting or automation of repetitive CAD and library tasks\nUS Salary Range\n$136,500 - $191,500 USD\nThe salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are considered part of Neros' total compensation package.\nWe’re an equal opportunity employer. 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