The Role
The Layout Designer will design layouts for PCBs, collaborating with engineers to ensure testability and manufacturability, interpret schematics, route traces, and create manufacturing outputs.
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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
Skills Required
- Degree in electrical engineering or equivalent
- 5+ years' experience in PCB layout
- Basic understanding of electronic principles and circuit behavior
- Signal Integrity and Thermal Management skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to identify and resolve design issues
- Basic understanding of Mechanical design principles
- Experience with Mentor Pads (an asset)
- Understanding of DFM/DFT for high factory yield
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The Company
What We Do
Zhone Technologies is a global leader in Network Edge, Connected Home/Enterprise, and AI Cloud Software solutions that enable gigabit broadband everywhere. They are a provider of access and optical networking infrastructure and AI-driven cloud software solutions.
