PCB Layout Engineer

Cypress HCM; California (MO); On-site; USD 144,648 - 165,312; Part time

Job summary

Cypress HCM is hiring for a part-time electrical design engineer to work on circuit board designs alongside a small team. Located in California, Missouri, this role requires PCB design experience and collaboration with mechanical engineers. The successful candidate will assist in fabricating and ordering circuit boards while ensuring design quality and efficiency. The pay rate is $105-$120/hour based on experience, working approximately 20 hours per week.

Qualifications

• Background in PCB design or electrical engineering.
• Interest in trying new tools and technologies.
• Strong commitment to quality and principled design.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineers to finalize circuit board designs.
• Place and route circuit boards.
• Incorporate feedback from board vendors to achieve build readiness.
• Create design documentation templates for efficiency.

Skills

PCB design

Electrical design engineering

Problem-solving

Team collaboration

Tools

Electrical CAD software

DFM tools

Job description

Our Robotics team is focused on unlocking general-purpose robotics and advancing toward AGI-level intelligence in dynamic, real-world environments. Working across the full model and systems stack, we integrate cutting‑edge hardware and software to explore a broad range of robotic form factors. We strive to seamlessly blend high-level AI capabilities with the physical constraints of real-world systems to improve people’s lives.

About Role

An engineer in this role will work with a very small team of electrical design engineers to turn schematics and mechanical constraints into finished circuit board designs and fabrication packages that can be manufactured. They will work with the supply chain team to get those boards ordered and fabricated.

In This Role You Will

• Work with electrical and mechanical engineers to trade off design requirements
• Place and route boards, both brand-new and in subsequent revisions
• Handle DFM feedback from board vendors to get to build readiness
• Create rulesets, stackup templates, and fab package templates to accelerate future designs

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have a background in PCB design
• Are interested and willing to try new tools and technologies to accelerate your work
• Have an unflappable commitment to principled design decisions and consistent quality
• Are willing to tell your designers that they’re prioritizing badly
• Don’t feel strong attachment to any particular work product

What success looks like:

• Electrical design engineers are spending a majority of their time making schematics and doing bring‑up
• Design cycles for new boards are 1-2 weeks faster than they are today.

Pay Rate

$105-$120/hour DOE

This role is 20 hours per week, part time