PCB Design Engineer

Role: PCB Design Engineer
Location: Austin, TX
Employment Type: Full-Time | Direct Hire

Your Role with the Company

As a PCB Design Engineer, you'll develop sophisticated multilayer printed circuit boards that support advanced embedded computing platforms for aerospace, defense, and industrial applications. Working alongside electrical, mechanical, manufacturing, systems, and test engineers, you'll transform complex hardware concepts into manufacturable, high-performance PCB layouts while optimizing signal integrity, power integrity, manufacturability, and overall product reliability.

You'll participate throughout the entire product development lifecycle—from architecture discussions and PCB layout through fabrication support, design reviews, and production—allowing you to solve technically challenging design problems using the latest PCB technologies and industry-leading design tools.

Community Information

Austin, Texas consistently ranks among the nation's top cities for technology professionals. Home to a thriving engineering community, outstanding universities, vibrant entertainment districts, and abundant outdoor recreation, Austin offers an exceptional quality of life. Residents enjoy no state income tax, a strong job market, excellent schools, live music, and year-round outdoor activities including hiking, biking, and water sports.

Qualifications

Must Have

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent industry experience

Expertise designing complex high-density multilayer PCBs for aerospace, defense, networking, telecommunications, embedded computing, automotive, or other high-performance electronic products

2+ years of professional PCB layout experience using enterprise-class PCB design tools, with Siemens Mentor Xpedition strongly preferred

Extensive experience with Mentor Xpedition Layout, DxDesigner, and associated design libraries and constraint management tools

Proven experience translating electrical schematics into manufacturable PCB layouts while collaborating closely with hardware engineers

Strong background designing high-speed digital PCBs utilizing technologies such as: DDR4 / DDR5, GDDR, PCI Express Gen4/Gen5, Gigabit and high-speed Ethernet, Controlled impedance routing, Differential pair routing

Experience designing dense multilayer boards (typically 14–24+ layers, or equivalent complexity)

Strong knowledge of HDI PCB technologies, including blind/buried vias, via-in-pad, sequential lamination, microvias, and advanced stack-up construction

Hands-on experience with: BGA, fine-pitch BGA, QFN packages, High-pin-count FPGA layouts, Surface-mount and through-hole technologies, Rigid and rigid-flex PCB designs

Strong understanding of Signal Integrity (SI), Power Integrity (PI), PCB fabrication and assembly processes, DFM, DFA, and DFT principles

Experience creating fabrication, assembly, and manufacturing documentation

Desired

Experience migrating or translating PCB designs from platforms such as Altium, Cadence Allegro, PADS, Zuken, or PCAD into Xpedition

Experience supporting engineering libraries, design rule development, ECO management, and PCB design process improvements

Experience with RF, analog, mixed-signal, and FPGA-based PCB layouts

Familiarity with impedance-controlled RF structures, antenna layouts, clock distribution, and high-speed memory interfaces

Experience designing products for aerospace, defense, space, radar, communications, embedded computing, or other mission-critical applications

Working knowledge of IPC standards, military specifications, and high-reliability PCB design practices

Experience mentoring PCB designers or establishing PCB design methodologies and best practices

Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to optimize complex routing challenges while balancing electrical performance, manufacturability, and cost.

Demonstrated ability to leverage AI-assisted engineering tools to improve productivity while validating engineering accuracy

Pay: $100,000.00 - $140,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Work Location: In person