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Senior Staff Engineer, PCB Design (R5752)

Shield AI· X-BAT Division – X-BAT Engineering - Avionics
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Seattle, WA$180k - $270kFull Time EmployeePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior level PCB design engineer responsible for creating robust, manufacturable PCBA layouts for Shield AI’s aircraft, collaborating with electrical, mechanical, and manufacturing teams throughout the design process.

Responsibilities

  • Create PCB layouts for complex digital, analog, RF, high-speed, and power electronics designs.
  • Plan and manage PCB stack-ups in collaboration with fabrication vendors and manufacturing engineers.
  • Partner with electrical engineers to interpret schematics, routing rules, and design intent.
  • Collaborate with mechanical engineers to ensure proper board form factor integration, connector positioning, placement constraints.
  • Apply best practices for signal integrity, power integrity, grounding, impedance control, and thermal/EMI mitigation.
  • Conduct design reviews and implement feedback to ensure manufacturability, reliability, and compliance with company standards.
  • Generate and maintain manufacturing documentation, including Gerber/ODB++ files, fabrication and assembly notes and drawings.
  • Work with manufacturing engineering to ensure designs meet supplier DFM requirements.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in PCB layout for production hardware (or equivalent combination of education and experience)

Skills

Nice to have:IPC standardsPCB materials and manufacturing processControlled-impedance routing, differential pairs, length matching, and high-current power distributionScripting and automationAltium DesignerSimulation tools for layout validation

Benefits

  • Salary range: $180,000 - $270,000 per year
  • Bonus
  • Benefits
  • Equity
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Shield AI

Autonomy for the world.

Our mission is to protect service members and civilians with intelligent systems.

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