Pcb Designer

Job Title: PCB Designer

Job Description

The Electrical Engineering team seeks a PCB Designer with vast experience designing high power and high-speed Printed Circuit Board (PCB) layouts from electrical schematics to drive the future generation of autonomous vehicles. This includes creating design rules, reviewing designs for manufacturability, generating files from the PCB project for board manufacturing and assembly, answering questions from the CM, and performing first article inspection on initial board runs.
Responsibilities

• Work closely with Hardware Engineers to design and lay out circuits using Altium Designer.
• Manage and maintain electronic component libraries in Altium 365 and PLM.
• Maintain templates for schematics and drawings.
• Review and generate PCB/A manufacturing packages.
• Take responsibility for PCBA projects from schematic hand-off to first article inspection.
• Assist and guide other members of the Electrical Engineering department with technical problems.
• Mentor other members of the Electrical Engineering department in designing for signal integrity, power integrity, and manufacturability.
• Drive project timelines by working with contract manufacturers to answer questions on their manufacturing line.
• Stay involved and up to date with the industry's latest PCB design information, tools, and techniques.

Essential Skills

• 5+ years of work in PCB layout or an associate degree + 3 years of work experience.
• Knowledge of return path, power distribution, grounding, and EMI mitigation.
• Experience and understanding in high density, high speed, and high-power designs.
• Solid understanding of the PCBA manufacturing process from design rules, file generation, quoting, fabrication, drilling, and managing contract manufacturers.
• Experience with high-reliability, aerospace, and/or IPC Class 3 designs.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Mixed experience in high density, high speed, and high-power designs.
• Knowledge of Altium Designer, Altium 365, and PLM.
• Experience in high-reliability and aerospace design.
• Understanding of signal integrity, power integrity, and manufacturability.

Work Environment

The work environment includes about 250-300 employees, with a heavy focus on engineering and testing. The company prefers employees to be onsite but is open to 1-2 days a week from home as long as productivity is maintained.
Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $100000.00 - $130000.00/yr.
Premium Healthcare Benefits: Three plan options, including an HSA-eligible plan, with Forterra covering 80% of the plan premium for you and your dependents.
Basic Life/AD&D, short and long-term disability insurance, Legal & ID protection plans 100% covered by Forterra, plus the option to purchase additional life insurance for you and your dependents.
Extremely generous company holiday calendar including a winter break in December.
Competitive paid time off (PTO) offering 20 days accrued per year.
A minimum of 7 weeks fully paid parental leave for birth/adoption.
A $9k annual tuition reimbursement or professional development stipend.
Fully stocked beverage refrigerators with all the Celsius your little heart desires.
401(k) retirement savings plan, including traditional, Roth 401(k), and after-tax deferral with company match up to 4%.
Workplace Type

This is a fully onsite position in Clarksburg,MD.
Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on May 9, 2025.
About Actalent


Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 30,000 consultants and more than 4,500 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500.


The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.


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