Senior Electrical Engineer - PCB Design

Position Title: Senior Electrical Engineer, PCB Design
Requisition : 1894
Position Location: Remote
Position

Reports To:

Manager, PCB Design
Supervises Others: No

At Trident Systems, we believe that strong engineering principles are fundamental to driving innovation and solving complex problems. We promote a culture characterized by rigorous engineering practices and a commitment to continuous improvement. This is achieved by leveraging our organization's collective expertise through collaborative development processes, which include thorough design and peer reviews. We can deliver innovative, high-performance solutions that meet our customers' evolving requirements by integrating our specialized knowledge in aerospace electronic systems with appropriately scaled development methodologies.

We are a mission partner supporting DoD, Intelligence Community, and Civil space customers. We develop complex, radiation effects mitigated, designs that balance competing requirements in modern space programs, delivering cutting-edge solutions that enable our customers to achieve more in space. This role is ideal for a PCB Designer who is highly proficient in Altium Designer and enjoys tackling dense, highpower, highspeed, and RF PCB layouts, including DDR4/DDR5 memory interfaces, in challenging smallformfactor space applications.

We are seeking an experienced PCB Designer to lead and execute complex printed circuit board layouts for advanced space-borne electronic systems. The ideal candidate has deep expertise with Altium Designer as the primary PCB CAD tool, and has a strong track record designing highpower PCBs in compact form factors, with highspeed digital, RF, and mixed signal content, including DDR4 and DDR5 memory interfaces.

The candidate thrives in environments where precision, documentation discipline, and cross functional collaboration are essential. Experience in aerospace, defense, or other controlled industries is strongly preferred.

• Own the endtoend PCB layout process for digital, analog, RF, mixed signal, highspeed, and highpower designs using Altium Designer.
• Translate electrical schematics, mechanical constraints, and system level requirements into compact, high density, manufacturable PCB layouts, including highpower boards in small form factors.
• Create and maintain PCB footprints, symbols, and component libraries within Altium Designer, ensuring consistency with IPC and internal standards.
• Perform stackup definition and impedance control for highspeed differential pairs, RF transmission lines, and DDR4/DDR5 interfaces.
• Develop routing strategies for highspeed serial links, RF paths, and DDR4/DDR5 buses, including length matching, skew control, via strategies, and crosstalk mitigation.
• Optimize layouts for thermal performance and current handling in highpower designs, including copper pours, via stitching, thermal relief, and component placement for heat spreading.
• Collaborate closely with electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, manufacturing partners, and program teams to balance size, power, signal integrity, RF performance, and manufacturability.
• Conduct design reviews and incorporate feedback to ensure compliance with signal integrity, power integrity, RF performance, reliability, and regulatory requirements.
• Generate fabrication and assembly documentation, including Gerber/ODB++ files, drawings, and build packages, directly from Altium Designer.
• Work within configurationcontrolled environments and follow established processes for documentation, revision control, and release.
• Support prototype builds, troubleshooting, and iterative design improvements, including debug of highspeed/DDR interfaces and highpower thermal or layout issues.

• Bachelor's degree and 6+ years of related experience OR 4+ years of related experience with a graduate degree (10+ years of related experience can be considered in lieu of a degree)
• Professional PCB design experience in a production environment.
• Expert level proficiency with Altium Designer as the primary PCB CAD tool (experience with other highend PCB tools is a plus).
• Demonstrated experience designing complex, multilayer boards including highpower PCBs in small form factors, highspeed digital interfaces, RF/mixed signal sections, and controlledimpedance routing.
• Handson experience with DDR4 and/or DDR5 memory layout, including routing topologies, length matching, skew control, and reference plane management.
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