PCB Design Engineer

Role Overview

• Create new components as needed adding to the client library
• Perform component placement whilst trading off the myriad of requirements that may conflict
• Generate routing whilst minimising noise/EMI
• Implement strategies for management of thermal issues
• Adhere to the specific client design rules and understands the capabilities of specified PCB manufacturer to ensure a high yield
• Work with mechanical designers to ensure electronics and mechanical parts mesh perfectly

Requirements

• Degree level qualification in Electrical/Electronic Engineering
• A lower qualification would be acceptable for example HNC/HND should the candidate be able to demonstrate significant demonstrable experience in lieu
• Understands and ensures traces are wide enough for the current they will carry and spaced adequately to avoid shorting or interference.
• Able to optimise the design to consider manufacturing & assembly (DFM/DFA)
• Able to optimise the design to consider test (DFT)
• Maintains consistency in component orientation to reduce assembly errors and improve inspection.
• Able to place board-to-wire and board to board connectors appropriately.
• Able to group components with related functions together to shorten trace lengths and simplify routing.
• Understands and able to place decoupling capacitors appropriately
• Understand segregation of analogue and digital circuits
• Understand and able to accommodate EMI/EMC considerations deploying solid ground planes and shielding as appropriate
• Able to locate high-power components appropriately or deploy strategies to transfer heat away from the component(s)/board.
• Able to optimise the design to keep heat-generating components away from sensitive components and ensure adequate spacing between them to avoid hot spots
• Able to route high-speed signals appropriately using uninterrupted ground planes to maintain controlled impedance.
• Understands and able to keep high-speed signal paths as short and direct as possible
• Understands and able to deploy solid ground planes to provide stable reference points and a clear return path for signals, helping to reduce noise and interference
• Understands layer stack design criteria
• Experience in PCB design delivering complex designs
• Proficiency using Altium/KiCad.
• Familiarity with STM32, PCI Bus & d.c./d.c. conversion is desirable
• Experience of delivery high reliability electronics for hostile environments in industries such as military, marine, aerospace, or rail is desirable
• SC Cleared

Tech Stack

• Assembly

Benefits

• Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and our peers through good times and challenges
• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
• Expleo Academy
• enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
• Competitive company benefits
• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo
• As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to:
• Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
• Communicating and promoting vacancies
• Offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job
• Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
• Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work