Layout Designer

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