Senior Printed Circuit Board Designer
hace 3 días
Bristol
Overview We are seeking experienced PCB Design Engineers to join a fast-growing advanced hardware engineering environment, developing next-generation high-performance compute platforms. This role will focus on the design and development of complex, high-speed digital boards supporting extremely demanding bandwidth, signal integrity, and power delivery requirements. The successful candidate will work closely with hardware, SI/PI, systems, and manufacturing teams across the full product lifecycle from concept through production. The work involves advanced board architecture and high-speed interconnect challenges associated with modern AI compute, accelerator, networking, and HPC-class systems. Key Responsibilities • Design and develop complex high-speed multilayer PCBs for advanced systems, • Work on PCIe Gen6 and other ultra-high-speed serial interfaces, • Develop PCB layouts with strong consideration for SI/PI, EMC, manufacturability, and thermal performance, • Collaborate with hardware engineers, SI/PI engineers, mechanical teams, and manufacturing partners, • Support schematic capture, floor planning, placement, routing, stack-up definition, and constraint management, • Drive board designs from early architecture through prototype, validation, and production, • Support debugging and bring-up activities where required, • Work closely with external fabrication and assembly vendors, • Contribute to design reviews and engineering process improvements Required Experience • Strong experience in high-speed digital PCB design, • Experience with PCIe, SerDes, DDR, Ethernet, or other high-speed interfaces, • Strong Cadence Xpedition/Expedition experience, • Experience designing complex multilayer PCBs, • Understanding of signal integrity and power integrity fundamentals, • Experience with controlled impedance and high-speed routing constraints, • Experience taking hardware designs through full product lifecycle, • Ability to work within a fast-moving engineering environment Desirable Experience • PCIe Gen5/Gen6 experience, • AI accelerator, networking, HPC, datacentre, telecoms, or server hardware experience, • Exposure to SI/PI simulation tools, • Knowledge of high-current PDN design, • Experience with manufacturing and DFM/DFT processes, • Familiarity with compliance and EMC considerations, • Experience supporting board bring-up and hardware validation