PCB Designer

Summary: The PCB Designer role at BAE Systems involves generating approximately 30 PCB designs per year, requiring detailed knowledge of complex multi-substrate designs. The position entails collaboration with mechanical and electronic design teams, as well as the manufacturing team to ensure designs meet production and testing standards. This is a remote position with occasional on-site requirements in Portsmouth, and it is offered on a 4-month contract basis. The role demands proficiency in specific PCB design tools and techniques.

Key Responsibilities:

• Be part of a small team generating approximately 30 PCB designs per year.
• Have detailed knowledge and experience of tools and techniques required to generate large, complex, multi-substrate PCB designs.
• Undertake PCB design activities from initial concepts through to generation of manufacturing data packs.
• Apply knowledge, technical skills and general engineering experience to generate PCB designs.
• Interpretation, generation, and management of schematic diagrams.
• Collaborate closely with the mechanical and electronic design teams.
• Collaborate closely with the manufacturing team ensuring Design for Manufacture and Design for Test considerations are embodied.

Key Skills:

• Proficient experience of Cadence Allegro toolset or PCB Editor (essential)
• PCB design techniques for large, complex, multi-layer, multi-substrate, PCBs.
• Designing for controlled impedance, high speed digital, RF, mixed signal, high current, and large FPGA technologies.
• Experience of blind, buried, and filled via techniques.
• Experience of flexible PCB and interconnecting assemblies.

Salary (Rate): £69.65

City: Portsmouth

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: Mid-Level

Industry: IT