PCB Design Engineer

Neros; Torrance (CA); On-site; USD 116,000 - 162,000; Full time

Job summary

Neros in Torrance, CA is seeking a PCB Design Engineer to own board layouts across all product lines, from compact airside electronics to ground control hardware.

You will manage the Altium library, ensure impedance control, and design flexible circuits while coordinating with fabrication vendors to deliver high-reliability boards for unmanned systems.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of dedicated PCB layout and design experience on hardware that reached production.
• Expert proficiency with Altium Designer, including workspace and library management.
• Ownership of CAD library: footprints, symbols, land patterns, and revision standards.
• Boards and drawings designed to IPC standards (IPC-2221/2222, IPC-6012, IPC-A-610, IPC-7351).
• Flex and rigid-flex design experience per IPC-2223/ IPC-6013.
• RF and high-speed digital layout and impedance control.
• Ability to work onsite at Torrance headquarters and handle export-controlled data as a U.S. person.

Responsibilities

• Own PCB layout from released schematic through fabrication release, incl. board outline, layer stackup, placement, routing, and DRC closure.
• Read schematics and apply appropriate layout practices for each design.
• Own the Altium library: footprints, symbols, land patterns, 3D bodies, templates, and revision control.
• Implement high-speed digital, RF, precision analog, and power sections with controlled impedance and differential pairs.
• Design flex and rigid-flex circuits, including bend area construction and coverlay.
• Produce complete fabrication and assembly documentation to IPC Class 2 and 3 (Gerber X2 / ODB++).
• Collaborate with fabrication vendors on stackup, impedance, DFM/DFA, and issue resolution.
• Establish and maintain PCB design standards and coordinate external layout resources.

Skills

Altium Designer

PCB Layout

RF Layout

High-speed Layout

IPC Standards

Schematic Reading

3D Footprints

Vendor Collaboration

Education

Bachelors in Electronics

Tools

Altium 365

Job description

Neros is a defense technology company rebuilding America’s drone industrial base. We design and manufacture high-performance unmanned systems that are tested in combat, iterated at startup speed, and built at massive scale. Our team culture is fast, hands-on, and obsessed with closing the gap between design and deployment.

As drones transform the character of warfare, Neros is delivering the systems the West needs to compete on the modern battlefield and deter the adversaries of democracy. We’re hiring engineers, operators, and builders who want to move fast, take on extreme ownership, and get capability into the hands of warfighters in months, not years.

What you will be doing

As a PCB Design Engineer at Neros, you will own printed circuit board layout across every product line we build, from the compact airside electronics inside our aircraft to the ground control hardware. You will take released schematics from our design engineers and own everything downstream: layer stackup, placement, controlled-impedance and RF routing, flex and rigid-flex interconnect, and the complete fabrication and assembly drawing package. You will also own our Altium library and the design standards the rest of the team works inside, which means the manufacturability and reliability of every board we ship starts with your work.

Responsibilities

• Own PCB layout on assigned designs from released schematic through fabrication release, including board outline, layer stackup definition, component placement, routing, and design rule closure
• Read and interpret schematics from the design engineers and apply the layout practices appropriate to each design
• Own the Altium library: footprints, schematic symbols, land patterns, 3D component bodies, design rule and board templates, output jobs, naming conventions, and revision control
• Implement high-speed digital, RF, precision analog, and power sections on the same board, applying controlled impedance, differential pair and length matching, and disciplined return path design
• Design flexible and rigid-flex circuits, including bend area construction, stiffeners, coverlay, and ZIF terminations
• Produce complete fabrication and assembly documentation to IPC Class 2 and Class 3, including fab and assembly drawings, Gerber X2 or ODB++, NC drill, netlists, paste and assembly data, and BOM outputs
• Work directly with fabrication and assembly vendors on stackup and impedance confirmation, DFM and DFA feedback, and resolution of manufacturing issues
• Establish and maintain the department's PCB design standards, review layouts produced by others, and coordinate external layout resources during design surges

You should have the following

• 7+ years of dedicated printed circuit board layout and design experience on hardware that reached production
• Expert proficiency with Altium Designer, including workspace and library management. Recent version experience preferred
• Demonstrated personal ownership of a company or corporate CAD library: creating and maintaining footprints and symbols, deriving land patterns, and enforcing naming and revision standards across a design team
• Boards and drawing packages designed to IPC standards, including IPC-2221 and IPC-2222 for design, IPC-6012 Class 2 and Class 3 for board qualification, IPC-A-610 and J-STD-001 for assembly acceptability, and IPC-7351 for land patterns
• Flex and rigid-flex design experience, including bend area construction, stiffeners and coverlay, designed per IPC-2223 and qualified to IPC-6013
• RF and high-speed digital layout expertise: transmission line theory and topology selection (microstrip, stripline, coplanar waveguide), controlled impedance, differential pairs, length and skew matching, reference plane and return path integrity, and via strategy
• Experience defining layer stackups and closing impedance calculations directly with fabrication vendors
• Fluency producing and releasing complete manufacturing output packages, with a track record of first-pass fabrication and assembly success
• A degree in electronics or electrical engineering, or an equivalent depth of hands-on layout experience in place of a degree. We care about the boards you have shipped, not the credential
• Ability to work onsite at our Torrance headquarters, and eligibility to work with export-controlled technical data as a U.S. person

Nice to Have

• Altium 365 or Concord Pro workspace administration, managed components, and revision control of ECAD data
• IPC CID or CID+ certification
• ECAD to MCAD co-design with SOLIDWORKS or Creo, including STEP model exchange and enclosure fit checks before prototype
• Signal and power integrity analysis exposure, such as HyperLynx, Ansys SIwave, or field solver based stackup and impedance tools
• HDI construction, sequential lamination, microvias, via-in-pad, back-drilling, high layer count (greater than 16) and thicker board stackups
• UAV, avionics, defense, medical, or other high-reliability applications where vibration, thermal extremes, and field reliability drive layout decisions
• Scripting or automation of repetitive CAD and library tasks

US Salary Range

$115,500 – $162,000 USD

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are considered part of Neros' total compensation package.

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