Responsibilities

• Create flexible printed circuit board designs and rigid multilayer printed circuit boards to meet engineering requirements.
• Edit and revise existing component placement, routing, board outlines, and constraints as needed to meet product requirements.
• Work with EEs, MEs, DFM engineers, and FCP/PCB vendors to optimize design layout.
• Support comprehensive design reviews and documentation with FPC/PCB vendors to initiate and answer all DFM feedback.
• Able to work well individually or with teams supporting internal customer requirements and needs.
• Own the responsibility of final design packages which include Valor checks and the generation of fabrication and assembly documentation.
• Maintain and expand knowledge of PCB design and manufacturing technologies and materials to take full advantage of industry capabilities.

Qualifications

• A minimum of seven (7) years of layout experience with exceptional understanding of FPC layout, manufacture, and constraints.
• Flexible printed circuit materials knowledge is required.
• Experience must involve PCB layout designs using Cadence Allegro PCB Design/CIS and designing high speed and impedance controlled circuits in compact multilayer flex circuit assemblies.
• Experience must also include HDI designs using BGA pitches of equal to or less than 0.5 mm.
• Valor experience also a plus.
• AS degree or Equivalent 

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