Layout Designer

Description

As a member of a dynamic development team, the Layout Designer will be responsible for the layout of printed circuit boards (PCBs) for carrier-grade Optical Transport, Optical Line Terminals (OLTs) and Customer Premise Equipment (CPE)

What You’ll Do

• •Work together with hardware engineers, software engineers and manufacturing to ensure PCB is designed for testability and manufacturability
• •Interpret schematics in the process of placing components and routing the PCB
• •Route traces and planes to achieve the design specifications and performance parameters
• •Design rule checking
• •Manage layout footprint library
• •Create manufacturing outputs to be sent to PCB vendor for fabrication

Requirements

• •Degree in electrical engineering or equivalent coupled with 5+ years' experience in PCB layout for high-speed Digital, Electro-optic, RF or Power Supply
• •Basic understanding of electronic principles and circuit behavior
• •Signal Integrity and Thermal Management skills
• •Excellent communication skills
• •Foster Collaboration with the design team
• •Ability to identify and resolve design issues to optimize PCB layouts
• •Basic understanding of Mechanical design principles relevant to PCB design
• •Experience with Mentor Pads (an asset)
• •Understanding of DFM/DFT to ensure boards can achieve high factory yield

Assets You May Possess

• •Experience with hardware design of high-speed circuits
• •Advanced electronics knowledge
• •Experience with schematic library management
• •Design reuse principles to speed up design cycles