PCB Design Engineer (hardware design)

A. Job description:
- Receive project information from PCB application engineer, sales, and customer.
- Communicate directly with customers for questions and design clarification.
- Prepare necessary files for customer review and approval.
- Pad-stack and component creation including schematic symbol and PCB footprint.
- Deploy the schematic diagram.
- Export bill of material (BOM). Calculate and select substitute components.
- Impedance calculation for single-ended and differential pairs.
- Select PCB material and calculate layer stack-up based on SI PI specification.
- Netlist to PCB layout and process component placement.
- Work closely with the SI PI engineer to optimize component placement, layer stack-up, routing priority, and copper plane distribution.
- Contact fab vendors for DFM specs to ensure the design meets their capability.
- Process PCB layout routing, trace length matching, power plane, back-drill, clean up DRCs, ...
- Generating manufacturing documentation such as Gerbers, IPC, solder paste stencil, assembly drawing, netlist connection...
- Cooperate with other departments for any relative issues.