Senior PCB Design Engineer - High-Speed Satellite Hardware

GCS Recruitment; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

GCS Recruitment seeks a Hardware Design Engineer or PCB Engineer to join a team engineering advanced phased-array antenna electronics for satellite communications. You will own board development, bring-up, and laboratory validation on large, high-density multilayer PCBs.

Requirements include 8+ years of board-level electrical design, hands-on lab skills with oscilloscopes and protocol analyzers, and experience with high-speed interfaces (PCIe, Ethernet, DDR) plus signal and power integrity.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of board-level electrical design experience.
• Experience with complex multilayer PCB design and power distribution.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Lead bring-up of newly fabricated boards, including power-on testing, subsystem checkout, debugging, and root-cause analysis.
• Plan and execute design verification and validation activities, including high-speed digital testing, power characterization, and functional verification, documenting results to engineering standards.
• Collaborate with design engineers to identify issues and implement improvements in future board revisions.
• Contribute to schematic capture and PCB layout activities for next-generation hardware designs.
• Support downstream integration and testing teams by delivering validated hardware and assisting with measurement and debug activities.

Skills

Board-level electrical design

Schematic capture

Multilayer PCB design

Power distribution

Sequencing

High-speed interfaces

Signal integrity

Power integrity

Lab debugging

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Logic analyzers

Protocol analyzers

High-speed test equipment

Job description

GCS Recruitment seeks a Hardware Design Engineer or PCB Engineer to join a team engineering advanced phased-array antenna electronics for satellite communications. You will own board development, bring-up, and laboratory validation on large, high-density multilayer PCBs.

Requirements include 8+ years of board-level electrical design, hands-on lab skills with oscilloscopes and protocol analyzers, and experience with high-speed interfaces (PCIe, Ethernet, DDR) plus signal and power integrity.