Andurilindustries
Staff PCB Designer/Layout Engineer, Air Dominance and Strike
Costa Mesa, California, United States. Posted a month ago
The role
You will work with avionics, system, and software engineers to create test systems for development, qualification, verification, and validation. This role involves PCB layout, managing ECAD libraries, and providing technical leadership on complex programs.
What you will do
- Create test systems for development, qualification, verification, and validation
- Read and interpret schematics
- Apply best practices for design and push back on decisions creating layout, manufacturability, or integrity risk
- Define and validate stackups with fabricators
- Own ECAD libraries and library standards
- Perform high speed digital layout and controlled impedance routing
- Serve as lead designer on complex or multi-board programs
- Set and document layout constraints
- Conduct design reviews
- Mentor less experienced designers
Required qualifications
- 10+ years of experience with PCB layout
- 5+ years of experience with Altium
- Ability to read and interpret schematics
- Deep understanding of PCB fabrication and assembly processes, limitations, design rules, and best practices
- Experience owning ECAD libraries and library standards
- Working knowledge of signal and power integrity principles
- Expert-level high speed digital layout and controlled impedance routing
- Experience with high density designs
- Demonstrated technical leadership
- Ability to manage layout scope, schedule, and risk across concurrent programs
- Eligible for security clearance
Nice to have
- CID+, CID++ and/or PCEA-CPCD certification
- Working experience applying MIL-STD and IPC standards, including IPC-2221/2222, IPC-6012 Class 3, and IPC-A-610
- Experience with rigid-flex, RF/mixed-signal, and thermally constrained designs
- Experience designing and analyzing power distribution networks using SI/PI tools
- Advanced Altium proficiency
- Experience leading DFM/DFA engagement with fab and assembly vendors through NPI
- Experience introducing or improving ECAD process, design standards, or documentation practices
- Thriving in a fast-paced environment
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or similar
Benefits
- Highly competitive equity grants
- Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees
Before you apply
- Eligible for security clearance
- Consent to pre-employment risk, integrity, and due diligence screening
About the company
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. Their family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system.