Principal ECAD Board Layout Engineer
Raytheon Technologies
- Tucson, AZ
- $96,000-200,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Responsible for Printed Circuit Board (PCB) designs from conception to manufacturing
- Creation of the PCB, Circuit Card Assembly (CCA), and Schematic drawings for suppliers
- Schematic Capture, Component Placement, Routing of Traces, Gerber/ODB++ file creation
- Utilizing software such as Siemens: Xpedition Enterprise and DownStream Technologies: BluePrint-PCB
- Design layouts include Rigid, Flex, and Rigid-Flex assemblies
- Work designs include full designs, re-spins, drawing updates, change notices, copper changes, and process improvement projects within and outside own discipline
- Daily interface with various engineering levels along with different engineering disciplines including, but not limited to Electrical, Mechanical, Components, Test, and Producibility Engineering disciplines to ensure that the overall design requirements are captured, keeping cost, cycle time, and producibility in mind
- Typically requires a Bachelor’s in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 8 years of prior relevant experience, or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 6 years of experience to include at least two (2) of the following:
- Previous work history with PCB manufacturing or CCA manufacturing principles that affect circuitry and component layout along with RF specific layout techniques
- Experience with the electrical design process including RF layout
- History with laying out Rigid, Flex, or Rigid-Flex boards
- The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.
- Working knowledge of Analog, Digital including DDR, RF, Power, and mixed technology, including multi-layer designs with High Density Interconnect (HDI) technology
- Technical PCB design skills using the Siemens design toolset including, but not limited to the Xpedition Layout tool suite with working knowledge of schematic capture, placement, routing, use of the auto-router, constraint manager, and library tools, and use of BluePrint to create complex PCB and CCA drawings, Altium is not used, but transfers over well to the Siemens toolset
- Export manufacturing data in both Gerber and ODB++ formats
- Awareness of Valor NPI, Design for Manufacturing rule sets, other Design Rule Checking software
- Understanding of drawings as they relate to PCB’s and CCA’s
- Awareness of IPC 6012 & IPC 6013
- Knowledge of military and commercial design standards, GD&T techniques, and overall producibility considerations related to electronic packaging
- Strong written and verbal communication skills as well as strong customer interaction skills with engineers of all levels within own discipline
- Must be able to communicate effectively through various means including Telecoms, MS Teams, Zoom, video conferencing, etc.
- Ability to effectively multi-task and demonstrated capability to make improvements of processes, systems, or products to enhance performance of the work area
- Must be able to own developing technical solutions to semi-complex problems through use of ingenuity and creativity with moderate supervision
- Must be a self-starter and possess the ability to work autonomously while establishing schedule and priority needs
- Must be proactive not only within their own discipline, but be able to apply those qualities to other similar/complementary disciplines with minimal supervision
- Working knowledge of operating system concepts and implementations, network services as related to Microsoft Windows suites
- Willingness to work extended hours (nights and/or weekends) as required to complete assigned tasking
- Active Secret DoD security clearance