Principal PCB & Substrate Layout Engineer (2 positions)

Company: GCR Professional Services
Location: Phoenix
Posted on: May 4, 2025

Job Description:

Principal PCB & Substrate Layout Engineer (Contract)

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(Location: Phoenix, AZ area)

Description:

Client is seeking an experienced Principal PCB & Substrate Layout Engineer to join their team. Client partners closely with the U.S. government delivering onshore trusted microelectronics. Client serves the aerospace, Defense, and Space sectors.

To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills and experience:
--- Minimum Education: Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or equivalent education and experience required
--- Minimum Experience: 10+ years as a PCB and/or High-Density Package Layout designer using industry standard layout tools like Cadence APD+
--- Experience with APD+ physical and electrical constraint editor
--- HDI stack-ups, including use of blind & buried micro-vias, specialty RF dielectric materials, and trace width/spacing around 15um/15um down to 2um/2um or below
--- Experience with 2.5D devices, interposer or substrate design, flip-chip, surface mount, die stacking, package stacking, substrate stacking and other techniques
--- Experience using a Cadence schematic / netlist driven CAD layout process, e.g. Cadence APD+ (Allegro) and supporting tools
--- High-end FPGA package or board design experience
--- Ability to work with our Mechanical team to design full 3D models for fit checks and thermal
--- Understanding of layout techniques in Digital, Analog, and/or RF layouts
--- Knowledge of electronic packaging techniques
--- Experience using a CAM package for manufacturing data validation. Knowledge of CAM350 & Blueprint is preferred
--- Working knowledge of JEDEC /IPC design, fabrication, and assembly specifications
--- Experience creating assembly documentation and fabrication deliverables per company and industry standards
--- Must be a US Person


You are responsible for:

Providing technical leadership to the engineering team specifically focused on High-Speed Interfaces and High Density Substrates layout techniques and understanding and improving our layout development processes to ensure we produce quality products using your expertise in PCB and Substrate layout engineering.



Responsibilities:
--- Driving design, layout, and analysis of complicated electrical and mechanical systems and their constituent parts including: high-density interposers, substrates, and printed circuit board (PCB) layouts. This includes power, digital, analog, and RF signals across multiple die (primarily flip-chip)
--- Hands on high-speed, multi-layer packaging, high-density interconnects (HDI), blind and buried vias, ball grid arrays (BGAs), RF, design for test (DFT), impedance calculations, cross talk, differential pairs, PCB stack-ups, PCB via structures, electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), material studies/selection, etc.
--- Understand Design For Manufacturing rules of our suppliers and ensure design process matches their capabilities
--- Understand and provide fabrication drawings that match the intent of the design and support the fabrication suppliers to ensure the technical intent is transferred successfully
--- Support package material characterization frequency dependent model; skin effects, smoothness, roughness, dielectric loss and dielectric constant
--- Work with peers and the engineering team to review the artwork and drawings at different stages and at the final design review for fabrication and assembly
--- Provide support for multidisciplinary investigations and feasibility studies with collaboration across engineering disciplines
--- Provide Technical guidance for interfacing to customers, subcontractors, assemblers, fabricators, and vendors/suppliers, operations, quality, supply chain, and supporting organizations
--- Works on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors
--- Considers the effects of actions on the system as a whole, i.e. "systems-thinking"
--- Willing to help the team in areas outside of specific technical discipline to accomplish goals

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