PCB Layout Engineer

Meta; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 139,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a PCB Layout Engineer to join their innovative team. This role involves collaborating with hardware engineers and vendors to design and improve PCB layouts for cutting-edge technology. You will manage complex designs, ensuring high standards of quality and compliance while also coaching vendors on best practices. This position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to groundbreaking projects that shape the future of connectivity and immersive experiences. If you're passionate about PCB design and eager to make an impact, this role is perfect for you.

Benefits

Bonus

Equity

Comprehensive Benefits

Qualifications

• 5+ years of PCB design experience with a strong focus on signal integrity.
• Experience with managing PCB vendors and preparing fabrication documents.

Responsibilities

• Own complex PCB designs and improve design processes with hardware teams.
• Create and manage PCB documentation, including fabrication and assembly packages.

Skills

PCB Design

Signal Integrity Analysis

Power Integrity Analysis

DFM (Design for Manufacturing)

Managing and Coaching Vendors

Interpreting Datasheets and Schematics

High-Speed Signal Impedance Control

EMI Performance Optimization

Education

BS in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Cadence Tool Sets

PLM Systems (Agile)

Job description

Meta Reality Labs is seeking a PCB Layout Engineer. In this role, you will work with hardware engineers, CMs, and PCB/Assembly vendors to determine PCB stack-up, apply design constraints, perform component placement and signal routing, and DFM. You will assist hardware engineers in performing signal integrity and power integrity analysis, and release fab and assembly packages.

Own and improve Meta PCB/FPC design processes, working with the hardware team, contractors, and CM PCB teams to deliver fab releases.

Own complex PCB/FPC/RFPC designs, containing analog, digital, RF, Camera, Display, Audio, Sensors, and power charging components.

Manage and coach CM and PCB vendors on placement/routing/DFM/working Gerber review to meet Meta design quality.

Create and manage PCB documentation including fabrication and assembly packages, such as Gerber, ODB, BoM, fab and assembly drawings.

Interface with board fabrication vendors to select proper materials and stack-up, using correct impedance and DFX rulesets.

Work with assembly vendors to supply data and seek assembly design requirements. Resolve DFM and manufacturing-related issues.

Work with hardware engineers and document control departments to release fab and assembly packages into a company-wide PLM system. Author ECOs if necessary.

Work closely with ECAD librarians on maintaining and expanding the company-wide library.

Minimum Qualifications

1. BS in EE or equivalent practical experience
2. 5+ years of PCB design experience
3. Experience with Cadence tool sets or similar technologies
4. Experience in managing and coaching CMs and PCB vendors
5. Experience in preparing fabrication notes, assembly notes, and deliverables, such as Gerber files, drill charts, PCB assembly BOMs, and/or other PCB and assembly-related documents required by PCB fabrication vendors to build circuit boards for prototypes and products
6. Experience interpreting datasheets and schematics, generating netlists and constraints, and using schematic for layout and routing reference
7. Experience with PLM systems such as Agile
8. Knowledge of IPC, JEDEC, IEEE, and/or other electronic standards
9. Experience with HDI design. Knowledge of multilayer PCB layout, fabrication, and assembly techniques including blind/buried vias, and microvias
10. Experience with Rigid, Flex, and/or Rigid-Flex boards design and manufacturing
11. Experience in PCB layout design constraints for mixed/RF signal, high-speed signal impedance control, memory interfaces, power distribution, heat dissipation, and/or optimization for EMI performance

Preferred Qualifications

1. Experience with mSAP technologies
2. Experience with SiP technologies
3. 10+ years of experience in PCB layout design using Cadence Allegro
4. Proven track record of designing and managing all aspects of printed board design used in high-volume consumer products
5. Knowledge in EMC compliance, environmental safety compliance

For those who live in or expect to work from California if hired for this position, please click here for additional information.

About Meta

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.

$139,000/year to $200,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate, monthly rate, or annual salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base compensation, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta.

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