- 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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