Senior Staff PCB Designer - High-Speed, Power & RF

Shield AI; Seattle, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Shield AI is seeking an experienced PCB Designer to create robust PCBA layouts for aircraft systems. You will collaborate with electrical, mechanical, and manufacturing engineers to translate schematics into manufacturable designs and output fabrication drawings.

The role emphasizes signal and power integrity, impedance control, and thermal/EMI mitigation, with a focus on production-ready PCBs and close collaboration with vendors and internal teams.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of PCB layout experience for production hardware.
• Strong understanding of IPC standards (IPC-2221/2222, IPC-7351).
• Experience with stack-up design, impedance control, and DFM requirements.

Responsibilities

• Create PCB layouts for complex digital, analog, RF, high-speed, and power electronics designs.
• Plan and manage PCB stack-ups with fabrication vendors and manufacturing engineers.
• Interpret schematics, routing rules, and design intent with electrical engineers.
• Collaborate with mechanical engineers for board form factor integration and connector placement.
• Apply best practices for signal integrity, power integrity, grounding, and EMI mitigation.
• Conduct design reviews and implement feedback for manufacturability and reliability.
• Generate and maintain manufacturing outputs like Gerber/ODB++ files and assembly drawings.
• Work with manufacturing to ensure DFM compliance.

Skills

PCB layout

Signal integrity

Power integrity

High-speed design

Tools

Altium Designer

Scripting/Automation

Job description

Shield AI is seeking an experienced PCB Designer to create robust PCBA layouts for aircraft systems. You will collaborate with electrical, mechanical, and manufacturing engineers to translate schematics into manufacturable designs and output fabrication drawings.

The role emphasizes signal and power integrity, impedance control, and thermal/EMI mitigation, with a focus on production-ready PCBs and close collaboration with vendors and internal teams.