Onsite High-Speed PCB Designer | SI/PI & PCIe Expert

Capgemini; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 63,000 - 118,000; Full time

Job summary

Capgemini Engineering in Bellevue, WA is expanding its hardware team to hire a High-Speed PCB Designer. The role focuses on high-speed interface design, SI/PI validation, memory architecture, and board bring-up across PCIe Gen4/Gen5, USB 3.x, Ethernet, and display interfaces.

You will collaborate with hardware, firmware, BIOS, validation, and platform architecture teams to deliver robust, manufacturable designs and clear fabrication docs in a fast-paced product development environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in high-speed PCB design in a product development environment.
• Proficient with Cadence Allegro PCB Designer for complex layouts.
• Experience with schematic capture tools (OrCAD Capture CIS or Cadence Concept HDL).
• Strong knowledge of HDI technologies, signal integrity, transmission lines, power distribution networks, and PCB manufacturing processes.
• Experience creating fabrication and assembly documentation packages, including ODB++ and IPC-2581 deliverables.

Responsibilities

• High-speed interface design and validation for PCIe Gen4/Gen5, USB 3.x, Ethernet, LPDDR4/LPDDR5, GDDR6/7 and DisplayPort.
• SI/PI analysis including eye diagram validation, jitter analysis, impedance control, return path optimization, PDN validation, and high-speed channel debugging.
• LPDDR5 memory architecture, routing constraints, timing analysis, training/debug concepts, and memory validation methodologies.
• High-speed PCB design, stack-up planning, layout review, routing optimization, and board bring-up/debug activities.
• System-level debugging and root-cause analysis for signal quality, interoperability, and performance-related issues.
• Compliance and electrical validation using oscilloscopes, protocol analyzers, VNAs, BERTs, and industry-standard validation tools.
• Cross-functional collaboration with hardware, firmware, BIOS, validation, and platform architecture teams.

Skills

Communication skills

Collaboration

Organizational skills

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Electronics/Physics or related field

Tools

Cadence Allegro PCB Designer

OrCAD Capture CIS

Cadence Concept HDL

ODB++

IPC-2581

Job description

Capgemini Engineering in Bellevue, WA is expanding its hardware team to hire a High-Speed PCB Designer. The role focuses on high-speed interface design, SI/PI validation, memory architecture, and board bring-up across PCIe Gen4/Gen5, USB 3.x, Ethernet, and display interfaces.

You will collaborate with hardware, firmware, BIOS, validation, and platform architecture teams to deliver robust, manufacturable designs and clear fabrication docs in a fast-paced product development environment.