Location: Sunnyvale, CA
Salary: $55.00 USD Hourly - $60.00 USD Hourly
Description: PCB Layout EngineerLocation: Menlo Park, CA (100% Onsite)
Employment Type: W2
About the RoleWe are seeking an experienced
PCB Layout Engineer to lead end-to-end PCB layout activities for complex, high-density server and compute platform designs. This opportunity is part of a large-scale engineering initiative supporting advanced hardware development across semiconductor, server, AI infrastructure, and high-performance computing environments.
Note: This is not a traditional PCB design role. Candidates must possess advanced high-speed PCB layout experience supporting server-class hardware, AI infrastructure, FPGA, and SoC-based platforms.
Responsibilities- Own complete PCB layout design for high-density, high-speed hardware platforms.
- Collaborate with hardware, signal integrity, power integrity, and mechanical engineering teams.
- Develop PCB layouts for server, compute, AI, and data center hardware platforms.
- Apply industry best practices for high-speed routing, stack-up planning, and signal integrity.
- Support design reviews and manufacturing readiness activities.
- Ensure adherence to DFA, DFM, and DFT requirements throughout the design lifecycle.
Required Qualifications- 10+ years of PCB layout engineering experience.
- Expertise with Cadence Allegro 23.1 or later.
- Strong background in high-speed PCB layout and design.
- Experience with:
- DDR5 / LPDDR5 memory interfaces
- PCIe Gen5 and/or PCIe Gen6
- HDI and microvia technologies
- Complex SoC and FPGA-based hardware platforms
- Knowledge of:
- Design for Manufacturing (DFM)
- Design for Assembly (DFA)
- Design for Test (DFT)
Minimum Qualifications- Cadence Allegro PCB Designer experience.
- High-speed PCB design experience.
- DDR5 experience.
- PCIe Gen5 or PCIe Gen6 experience.
- HDI / Microvia design experience.
Preferred Qualifications- FPGA platform design experience.
- AI infrastructure hardware experience.
- Data center hardware experience.
- Server motherboard or server board design experience.
Preferred Industry BackgroundCandidates from the following environments are strongly preferred:
- NVIDIA
- AMD
- Intel
- Broadcom
- Cisco
- Dell Technologies
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
- Supermicro
- Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions
- Arista Networks
- Juniper Networks
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