Lead PCB Designer (Starshield)

Hawthorne, CAfull time

On Site

senior

$140k–$230k

H1B: no

SpaceX Lead PCB Designer at SpaceX for Starshield, responsible for building and leading a PCB design team and collaborating with engineering and manufacturing teams. Designs PCBs meeting performance and reliability requirements and mentors other designers.

Responsibilities

Lead and hire a team of high-performance printed circuit board (PCB) designers
Establish priorities and projects with clear scope and objectives
Develop growth plans for team members to develop their capabilities
Review and guide new projects to maintain cost and performance objectives
Drive the development of the electronic data management solutions
Determine layer stackup; perform component package selection, component placement, routing feasibility studies, and signal routing of digital, analog, RF, and power conversion of PCBs
Create and release documentation for fabrication of PCBs
Collaborate with internal teams and PCB vendors to continually improve design rules, constraints, and design for test and manufacture guidelines
Standardize and maintain release of documentation for fabrication of PCBs
Utilize PCB design tools; maintain and evaluate new tools, and train team members to use tools

Qualification

2+ years of PCB design experienceExperience with MIL-STD

Required

Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline
2+ years of PCB design experience
1+ years of experience leading teams and/or projects

Preferred

Experience designing boards for high volume production and executing on tight deadlines
Deep understanding of DFM/DFA/DFT (design for manufacturing, design for assembly, design for test) rules and PCB fabrication process. Mastery of tools such as Valor Enterprise
2+ years of experience with PCB layout and routing in one or all of the following areas: modern passive and active electronics components, surface-mount, RF components, ball-grid array and similar fine pitch, or high pin density components
Experience with ECAD libraries and library configuration management
Experience with Mentor Xpedition and/or Altium Designer
Experience with layout of mixed analog and digital designs, high speed buses, FPGA, DRAM and CPU designs, power supplies, DC-DC converters, transmission lines, impedance-controlled traces, and power traces
Experience with MIL-STD, commercial and IPC standards and design
Experience with scripting and automation

Benefits

Dental
Vision
401(k)
Parental Leave
Life Insurance

Company

SpaceX

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