Senior High-Speed PCB Engineer — Space-Grade SI/PI Expert

Blue Origin LLC; United States; On-site; USD 157,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Stock options

Education Support Program

Job summary

Blue Origin is seeking a Principal PCB Hardware Engineer to lead the design and validation of the TeraWave network switch platform. You will drive high-speed PCB layout, SI/PI analysis, and hardware bring-up across multi-layer PCB assemblies for space hardware.

The role requires 7+ years in high-speed PCB design, a strong background in SerDes, DDR memory interfaces, and rigorous DFM/DFT practices, with collaboration across firmware and software teams. WA-based, competitive benefits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• 7+ years of experience in high-speed PCB design and hardware development in a product development environment.
• Proven track record of designing and shipping complex, high-speed multi-layer PCBs from concept through high volume production.
• Deep expertise in signal integrity analysis, including pre/post-layout SI simulation, eye diagram analysis, crosstalk characterization, and physical layer correlation measurements.
• Hands-on experience with advanced PCB manufacturing technologies.
• Proven experience designing high speed memory interfaces.
• Hands-on experience designing PCB layouts for serializers and deserializers (SerDes) at data rates of 10 Gbps and above.
• Experience designing microprocessor and SoC PCB implementations.
• Strong expertise in power integrity design and verification, including PDN target impedance analysis, decoupling network simulation, and physical PDN impedance measurement and validation.
• Experience with PCB design for manufacturability (DFM) and design for testability (DFT).

Responsibilities

• Lead hardware bring-up and validation of the TeraWave switch PCB, including power sequencing, high-speed interface eye diagram characterization, BER testing, individual component compliance through environmental testing.
• Develop and execute hardware validation test plans covering SI/PI measurements, functional test, and environmental screening as appropriate.
• Support resolution of complex PCB-related hardware issues identified during bring-up, integrating root cause findings back into PCB design guidelines and DFM/DFT standards.
• Collaborate with firmware and software teams on BSP integration, device driver bring-up, and hardware-software interface debug for network switch and embedded management subsystems.

Skills

High-speed PCB design

Signal integrity analysis

Power integrity design

DDR/memory interface

SerDes design

PCB layout (BGA, high density)

DFM/DFT

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field

Tools

VNA

TDR analysis

Job description

Blue Origin is seeking a Principal PCB Hardware Engineer to lead the design and validation of the TeraWave network switch platform. You will drive high-speed PCB layout, SI/PI analysis, and hardware bring-up across multi-layer PCB assemblies for space hardware.

The role requires 7+ years in high-speed PCB design, a strong background in SerDes, DDR memory interfaces, and rigorous DFM/DFT practices, with collaboration across firmware and software teams. WA-based, competitive benefits.