Senior to Principal Level PCB Layout Engineer
Location: Berkshire (relocation supported).
Working pattern: Full‑time onsite.
Security clearance: Eligible for Developed Vetting (DV).
We invite you to join a cutting‑edge team in defence and cyber technology, delivering advanced solutions that protect critical information and support mission‑critical operations worldwide. This role is ideal for an experienced PCB Designer aiming to step into a Senior role or a Principal Engineer looking for greater technical influence, working on highly secure, technically challenging programmes that make a real‑world impact.
Key Responsibilities
- Design complex rigid, semi‑rigid, and flex‑rigid PCBs incorporating through, buried, and blind vias.
- Produce layouts for analogue, RF, digital, power, and high‑speed designs.
- Ensure designs meet EMC, signal integrity, security, and TEMPEST requirements.
- Work closely with hardware engineers to define routing strategies, impedance control, and design constraints.
- Incorporate DFM, DFT, and production test requirements into designs.
- Coordinate with PCB fabricators and assembly houses to support successful manufacture.
- Lead design reviews and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.
- Estimate design effort and deliver against programme schedules.
- At Principal level, contribute to technical proposals, bids, and mentor less experienced engineers.
Qualifications
- Essential: Degree in Engineering, Science, Mathematics or equivalent industry experience.
- Strong background in PCB design, routing, and layout of complex electronic assemblies.
- Experience designing multilayer, high‑density PCBs.
- Expertise with industry‑standard PCB design toolsets.
- Excellent knowledge of IPC standards and routing best practices.
- Proven track record delivering complex designs involving high‑speed digital, RF, analogue, and power electronics.
- Experience implementing DFM and DFT methodologies.
- Highly desirable: Signal integrity analysis experience.
- Understanding of power distribution and thermal design considerations.
- Experience with Gerber and ODB++ data.
- Altium Designer and/or PADS expertise.
- Schematic capture experience.
- Windchill version control knowledge.
Why Join
- Up to 10% annual bonus.
- £5,000 annual DV allowance once clearance achieved.
- Relocation opportunity available, case by case.
- Work on nationally significant cyber and defence programmes.
- Exposure to cutting‑edge aerospace, space, and security technologies.
- Clear progression from Senior to Principal and beyond.
- Opportunity to influence complex PCB design for critical defence applications.
If you are passionate about complex PCB design and want to work on projects that directly support security and advanced technology development, we’d love to hear from you.
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