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Shield AI

Robot type
Drone · Defense
Location
SeattleWashingtonUSA
Job type
Hardware
Posted
Sep 9, 2026
Salary
$180,000–$270,000 a year
Full-time

Senior Staff Engineer, PCB Design (R5752)

Job description

Shield AI — Senior Staff Engineer, PCB Design (R5752) (Seattle, Washington).

Job responsibilities

  • Create PCB layouts for complex digital, analog, RF, high-speed, and power electronics designs.
  • Plan and manage PCB stack-ups in collaboration with fabrication vendors and manufacturing engineers.
  • Partner with electrical engineers to interpret schematics, routing rules, and design intent.
  • Collaborate with mechanical engineers to ensure proper board form factor integration, connector positioning, placement constraints.
  • Apply best practices for signal integrity, power integrity, grounding, impedance control, and thermal/EMI mitigation.
  • Conduct design reviews and implement feedback to ensure manufacturability, reliability, and compliance with company standards.
  • Generate and maintain manufacturing documentation, including Gerber/ODB++ files, fabrication and assembly notes and drawings.
  • Work with manufacturing engineering to ensure designs meet supplier DFM requirements.

Job requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in PCB layout for production hardware (or equivalent combination of education and experience)
  • Solid understanding of IPC standards (IPC-2221/2222, IPC-7351, etc.)
  • Familiar with PCB materials and manufacturing process, and stack-up construction.
  • Familiarity with controlled-impedance routing, differential pairs, length matching, and high-current power distribution.
  • Experience with scripting and automation
  • Experience with Altium Designer
  • Experience using simulation tools to validate layout designs

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