Principal PCB Design Engineer

About the role

FormFactor, Inc., a provider of test and measurement technologies across the semiconductor product life cycle, is hiring a Principal PCB Design Engineer. The role covers PCB logical design, physical layout, electrical design and DFM, working with fabrication and assembly partners.

Key responsibilities

• Develop PCB logical designs, including netlist generation and routing constraints, from customer requirements, schematics and design documentation.
• Perform complete PCB physical layout, including component placement, routing, trace length matching and design verification.
• Apply electrical engineering principles to high-speed digital, RF, analog, mixed-signal and power designs.
• Optimize designs for manufacturability (DFM) with PCB fabrication and assembly partners to improve yield and reduce cost.
• Evaluate and validate new internal PCB design tools and give feedback to development teams.
• Develop and improve PCB design methodologies, processes and best practices.
• Create and maintain design documentation, procedures and training materials, and generate manufacturing and assembly data packages for product release.
• Present design reviews to internal teams and customers, and investigate and resolve DFM and DFA issues raised by vendors.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Electronics Engineering with at least 3 years of relevant experience; diploma holders with at least 5 years of PCB design experience are also considered.
• Extensive PCB design experience in high-speed digital circuits, DDR memory interfaces, flash memory designs, analog and mixed-signal systems, and PCB manufacturability optimization.
• Knowledge of schematic interpretation, netlist generation, electrical and routing constraints, signal integrity (SI) and power integrity (PI), and PCB verification.
• Advantageous: HDI technologies (blind, buried and microvias), semiconductor test environments and ATE, direct work with PCB suppliers, auto-router tools, and Cadence Allegro SKILL programming.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint; strong attention to detail, teamwork and English communication skills.

Required skills

• Cadence Allegro PCB Designer and Valor/CAM tools
• Schematic interpretation, netlist generation and routing constraints
• Signal integrity (SI) and power integrity (PI)
• DFM and DFA
• Microsoft Office