Senior PCB Layout Engineer

Position Description:

- Continue develop the layout design guide and check list

- Continue develop the layout team

- Lead a layout team to work on a project

- Key interface present layout team

- Develop Layout design for server/storage/communication products.

Specific Job Responsibilities:

- Maintain the process within the team

- Keep the PCB team output at high quality

- Lead planning a set of PCBs design at RFQ and planning stage, balance feasibility and

cost

- Accurate estimate PCB design effort and schedule

- Lead peer review, manager review, and cross site review

- Capable to lead a complex (server, storage, switch) PCB design.

- Capable top-down the PCB design from Planning to detail PCB design.

- Capable supervises other designers and helps to troubleshoot and solve CAD software

problems.

- Maintains PCB design integrity through updates and records of changes.

- Be the key interface, meets with project team leaders, designers, customer and suppliers

- The designer must be able to initiate and lead activities to improve the design process

and increase the efficiency of the design tools.

- Evaluates, recommends and tests CAD software and other programs necessary for PC

design.

- Seeks out new approaches for building internal and external relationships; maintains

contacts with existing relationships.

Qualifications:

- Good written and oral communication in English;

- Min Bachelor degree, or equivalent.

- Min 5 years direct experience in complex PCB design, 8 and plus years preferred;

- Understand electrical/SI/PI/power mechanical/thermal constraints, select the best

strategy for layout implementation.

- Active RF, Power, Analog experience is a plus;

- Running SI/PI tools, drive the results is a plus.

- Extensive computer and ECAD tools knowledge;

- Cadence Allegro V17.x preferred

- In-depth knowledge of electronics and printed circuit board design;

- In-depth knowledge of fabrication, assembly and test processes, including use of Valor's

Enterprise tool

- Diagnose and prioritize issues and solve design related problems.

- Communicate with internal/external customers and supplier.

- Communications logically, clear, concise, both written and spoken.

- Top down and details orientated.

- Drive issues to root cause, logical problem solving.

- Aggressively drive tasks independently and to seek out information internally, externally.

Desired Skills:

- Lead a complex project PCBs design, up to 56 layers, 56G/112G/224G.

- Top-down (Breakdown) the PCB design from Planning to detail PCB design.

- Supervises designers and troubleshooting and solving software problems.