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Staff Engineer, PCB Design (R6075)

Shield AI· V-BAT Engineering - Electrical
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Dallas, Texas$150k - $230kFull Time EmployeePosted 4w ago

About the role

PCB Designer responsible for creating manufacturable PCBA layouts for Shield AI aircraft, collaborating with electrical, mechanical, and manufacturing engineers throughout the design and documentation 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

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

Skills

Required:PCB layout
Nice to have:IPC standardsStack-up planningControlled-impedance routingAltium DesignerScripting/automation

Benefits

  • Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
  • Temporary employee offer package (pay within range + temporary benefits after 60 days)
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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