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