Senior PCB Materials & Process Engineer - RF/High-Speed

Echodyne; Kirkland (WA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 224,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSU (Restricted Stock Units)

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) match

Paid Holidays

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Echodyne, a leading radar technology company, seeks a Principal PCB/A Materials & Process Engineer to advance PCB materials, fabrication, and PCBA assembly for high-performance radar products. You will serve as the technical authority on stackups, materials, and manufacturability, collaborating with design, operations, and suppliers.

This role focuses on new product development and production-support, ensuring scalable, reliable manufacturing processes and driving supplier capability across the

Qualifications

• Knowledge of PCB materials, fabrication processes, stackups, and design-for-manufacturing / Quality / Reliability practices for RF, high-speed, or mixed-signal products.
• Experience working directly with PCB fabricators, material suppliers, and electronics manufacturing suppliers.
• Ability to evaluate PCB/PCBA designs, fabrication documentation, supplier design rules, and manufacturing tradeoffs and prioritize activities based on this analysis.
• Experience with RF PCB materials, PTFE or mixed-material stackups, rigid-flex construction, metal-backed boards, or complex multilayer fabrication.
• Experience with advanced PCB processes such as sequential lamination, blind/buried vias, filled vias, controlled-depth drilling, or controlled-impedance structures.
• Experience with electronics manufacturing, supplier development, product manufacturing engineering, or technical supplier management.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical authority in development for PCB materials, stackups, fabrication processes, and manufacturability tradeoffs for complex RF, high-speed, and mixed-signal designs
• Partner with design engineering, program management, operations, supply chain, and suppliers during NPI to align product requirements with practical PCB and PCBA manufacturing capabilities
• Lead technical engagement with PCB fabricators, material suppliers, and electronics manufacturing suppliers to assess advanced or emerging materials, new fabrication capabilities and processes, identify and resolve process gaps, and support supplier development
• Support supplier selection, qualification builds, production readiness, yield improvement, and root-cause analysis related to PCB fabrication, PCB materials, and PCBA manufacturing processes before production release
• Provide practical design and process guidance to improve manufacturability, reliability, cost, and supplier execution

Skills

RF PCB materials

PCB fabrication processes

PCBA assembly

Supplier development

Multilayer fabrication

Advanced PCB processes

Education

BS or higher in Engineering/Materials/Physics

Tools

ECAD tools

Valor

Manufacturing analysis tools

Job description

Echodyne, a leading radar technology company, seeks a Principal PCB/A Materials & Process Engineer to advance PCB materials, fabrication, and PCBA assembly for high-performance radar products. You will serve as the technical authority on stackups, materials, and manufacturability, collaborating with design, operations, and suppliers.

This role focuses on new product development and production-support, ensuring scalable, reliable manufacturing processes and driving supplier capability across the