Senior PWB Designer

Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Engineering Services Group, Engineering Services Group > PWB Design

General Summary:

The Sr. PWB Designer is part of the Central Hardware Systems, PWB CAD department, and will be able to design and document printed wiring board layouts that conform to manufacturing and industry standards and Qualcomm design guidelines. Working in close coordination with electrical and mechanical design teams from supplied schematics and electrical and mechanical design constraints to develop PWB layouts that meet all project goals and requirements for a variety of new 5G designs across multiple business units (R&D, Mobile, Compute, IOT, Infrastructure, Automotive, Test Equipment). This position is an onsite role.

Reference Auto, Mobile, Infrastructure, IOT & Compute designs - 'form factor accurate' (FFA) test platform high volume circuit boards. These boards require mastery in digital processors, RF, and radio circuits as well as power control devices. Experience with micro-vias (stacked), sequential lamination stack-ups and design rules using .5mm pitch and smaller packages. Responsibilities include working with US and India teams to provide PWB design solutions for high performance electronic assemblies for Mobile, Modem and IOT.

The candidate is expected to have proficiency on Siemens/Mentor Xpedition, PADS or Cadence Allegro PWB design software and is expected to have experience in developing PWB design solutions for a variety of design types and working with internal teams and external suppliers to support PWB fabrication and assembly.

Minimum Qualifications:

•    Associate's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or related field and 5+ years of PCB layout handling or related work experience.
OR
High School diploma or equivalent and 7+ years of PCB layout handling or related work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3+ years actively involved in PWB design for high-density electronics packaging.
• 3+ years experience in a PWB design role designing consumer-grade mobile products or low volume test products utilizing latest generation processor chips & ICs.
• Design for Manufacture (DFM) analysis experience utilizing Valor and/or CAM350 tools.
• Design experience: RF, Analog, High-speed digital circuits - DDR2, 3 & 4, HDMI, PCIe, SATA, MIPI, USB 2,3.x, GigE, ATE Platforms: 93K, uFlex and iFlex.
• Expected to possess expert understanding and demonstrated application of PWB design principles, practices, and standards.
• Able to perform complex and difficult PWB design tasks requiring extensive skill and knowledge of fabrication and assembly process capabilities and limitations.
• Develops solutions to a variety of complex problems and proposes PWB design trade-offs to the engineering design team for resolution and implementation.
• Determine PWB design trade-offs necessary to meet design requirements and produce high quality cost effective PWB’s that meet schedule objectives.
• Understands the requirements driving PWB technology and process trends and their application to Qualcomm designs.
• Maintain technical coordination with Engineering and Manufacturing. Resolve PWB design issues with fabrication and assembly vendors.
• Participate and provide input into process improvement, PWB and DFM checklists and guidelines.
• Participates in determining objectives of assignment and plans, schedules, and arranges own activities in accomplishing objectives.
• Experience working with various EMI mitigation techniques and practices.
• Experience with IDF/EMN file exchange between mechanical and HW teams.
• Understands project goals and individual contribution toward those goals.
• Effectively communicates with project peers and engineering personnel via e-mail, web meetings, and instant messaging including status reports and illustrative presentation slides.
• Interact and collaborate with other internal PWB designers for optimal product development processes and schedule execution.
• Effectively multitasks and meets aggressive schedules in a dynamic environment.
• Prepare and deliver design reviews to project team.
• Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Leadership skills to help direct, prioritize, and clearly set project tasks per schedule. Communicate milestones and directions to outside team members.

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$39.21 - $58.81

The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm.  We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus).  In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer – and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.

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