Hardware Engineer — High-Speed PCB Design

Cyber Assessment Labs; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Cyber Assessment Labs is seeking an experienced Hardware Engineer to advance an existing PCB to fab-ready production and bring-up. You will perform schematic refinement, placement and routing, generate manufacturing outputs, and support initial testing and debugging on a high-speed board.

You will apply controlled-impedance stackups, differential-pair routing, impedance control, and rigorous signal integrity practices while coordinating USB-C/PD, multi-rail power, and video paths from

Qualifications

• Strong experience designing and laying out production PCBs.
• High-speed digital PCB design experience.
• Schematic capture and PCB layout experience in KiCad.
• Experience with controlled-impedance PCB stackups.
• Strong understanding of differential-pair routing, impedance control, grounding and signal integrity.
• Experience designing and debugging multi-rail power systems.
• Experience preparing fabrication, assembly and BOM outputs for PCB manufacturers.

Responsibilities

• Review the existing board schematic and identify design issues, risks or required improvements.
• Complete component placement and PCB routing using KiCad.
• Design and route high-speed interfaces on a controlled-impedance stackup suitable for manufacture, applying differential-pair routing and impedance control.
• Review and validate the board's multi-rail power architecture.
• Configure and validate USB-C and USB Power Delivery functionality, including PD negotiation.
• Resolve DRC issues against custom board design rules.
• Prepare fab-ready Gerbers, manufacturing outputs, and a BOM and assembly/pick-and-place files.
• Support initial board manufacture, bring-up, testing and hardware debugging.
• Validate and troubleshoot the complete video path from DisplayPort → HDMI → MIPI CSI-2.
• Troubleshoot power, signal-integrity and interface issues during bring-up.

Skills

PCB design

High-speed design

Schematic capture

KiCad

Power integrity

Signal integrity

Differential pair routing

Impedance control

Multi-rail power systems

Fabrication outputs

Tools

KiCad

Job description

Hardware Engineer — High-Speed PCB Design

We're looking for an experienced Hardware Engineer to take an existing board design through to fab-ready production and board bring-up, delivering a reliable, manufacturable and testable hardware revision.

This is a hands‑on role suited to someone with strong experience in high-speed digital design, schematic capture, PCB layout and hardware validation. You'll work with an existing design, review and refine the schematic, complete placement and routing, prepare manufacturing outputs, and support initial bring-up and debugging.

About the Role

We're looking for an experienced Hardware Engineer to take an existing board design through to fab-ready production and board bring-up, delivering a reliable, manufacturable and testable hardware revision.

This is a hands‑on role suited to someone with strong experience in high-speed digital design, schematic capture, PCB layout and hardware validation. You'll work with an existing design, review and refine the schematic, complete placement and routing, prepare manufacturing outputs, and support initial bring-up and debugging.

Key Responsibilities

• Review the existing board schematic and identify design issues, risks or required improvements.

• Complete component placement and PCB routing using KiCad.

• Design and route high-speed interfaces on a controlled-impedance stackup suitable for manufacture, applying appropriate differential-pair routing, length matching, return-path and signal-integrity practices.

• Review and validate the board's multi-rail power architecture.

• Configure and validate USB-C and USB Power Delivery functionality, including PD negotiation.

• Resolve DRC issues against our custom board design rules.

• Prepare fab-ready Gerbers, manufacturing outputs, and a BOM and assembly / pick-and-place files compatible with our PCB manufacturer.

• Support initial board manufacture, bring-up, testing and hardware debugging.

• Validate and troubleshoot the complete video path from DisplayPort → HDMI → MIPI CSI-2.

• Troubleshoot power, signal-integrity and interface issues during bring-up.

Board Components / Interfaces

The current board includes:

• USB-C input

• USB-C Power Delivery controller

• DisplayPort-to-HDMI converter

• HDMI-to-MIPI CSI-2 converter

• Gigabit Ethernet

• Multi-rail power tree

Required Experience

• Strong experience designing and laying out production PCBs.

• High-speed digital PCB design experience.

• Schematic capture and PCB layout experience in KiCad.

• Experience with controlled-impedance PCB stackups.

• Strong understanding of differential-pair routing, impedance control, grounding and signal integrity.

• Experience designing and debugging multi-rail power systems.

• Experience preparing fabrication, assembly and BOM outputs for PCB manufacturers.

Highly Desirable

Experience with one or more of:

• USB-C and USB Power Delivery

• DisplayPort

• HDMI

• MIPI CSI-2

• Gigabit Ethernet

• High-speed video conversion ICs

• DC-DC buck converter design and layout

• Hardware bring-up and debugging of mixed power / high-speed digital boards

• Turnkey PCB manufacturing and assembly workflows

• Regulatory certification of hardware products, including EMC/EMI pre-compliance and design-for-compliance practices