Senior PCB Layout Lead — High-Speed AI Hardware

Cerebras; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 210,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Cerebras Systems seeks an exceptional PCB Layout Lead to own the physical implementation of complex, high-performance PCBs for AI systems. This role translates schematics into production-ready layouts, optimizing signal integrity, power integrity, thermal performance, reliability, and manufacturability.

You will collaborate with electrical, mechanical, thermal, and manufacturing engineers to define constraints and improve yield and schedule, supporting prototypes through production for AI

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of hands-on experience laying out complex, high-speed, multilayer PCBs.
• Expertise with Cadence Allegro PCB Designer and Constraint Manager; experience with Altium Designer or equivalent tools is also relevant.

Responsibilities

• Own multilayer PCB layout from initial component placement through fabrication and assembly release.
• Translate schematics, mechanical constraints, and electrical requirements into constraint-driven board designs using industry-standard PCB layout tools.
• Define and implement board stackups, controlled-impedance structures, routing rules, reference planes, return paths, and length- and phase-matching constraints.
• Place and route high-speed digital, high-current power, and sensitive analog circuits, including dense BGA fanout and differential interfaces.
• Apply signal-integrity and power-integrity best practices to minimize crosstalk, discontinuities, noise, voltage drop, and EMI.
• Collaborate with electrical, SI/PI, mechanical, thermal, compliance, manufacturing, and test engineers to establish constraints and resolve layout issues.
• Work with fabrication and assembly partners to select materials, validate stackups and via structures, and improve yield, cost, and schedule.
• Perform design reviews and DFM, DFA, and DFT checks; generate and verify fabrication drawings, assembly drawings, drill data, Gerbers, ODB++,

Skills

PCB layout

Signal integrity

Power integrity

Thermal design

High-speed routing

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Cadence Allegro PCB Designer

Constraint Manager

Altium Designer

Fabrication drawings/DFM tools

Job description

Cerebras Systems seeks an exceptional PCB Layout Lead to own the physical implementation of complex, high-performance PCBs for AI systems. This role translates schematics into production-ready layouts, optimizing signal integrity, power integrity, thermal performance, reliability, and manufacturability.

You will collaborate with electrical, mechanical, thermal, and manufacturing engineers to define constraints and improve yield and schedule, supporting prototypes through production for AI