PC Board Designer

Senior Circuit Board Designer

Clearance Level: Must be able to obtain an Active Secret Clearance due to the nature of the work.

Location:
Must be within 100 miles of Lexington, MA – This position is 100% onsite due to the nature of the work

At Aquila Technology, you will see our team’s passion every day, whether we are building a robust, policy-compliant IT system or stress-testing a system to identify gaps and security vulnerabilities. To own the advantage, we ensure our team owns results and gets the work done right the first time by deploying smart, purposeful solutions that work. Aquila is the right people with the right skills driving the right outcomes.

We call this the Aquila Advantage.

Aquila Technology is seeking a Senior Circuit Board Designer to join its team in support of one of the nation’s premier defense research organizations. The Rapid Prototyping team is seeking a hands-on and broad-background PC Board Designer with significant experience in the design, modeling and fabrication of PC Boards for novel payloads. The individual must have a deep understanding of Mil spec components, latest software and hardware tools, and best practices for layout, design, fabrication, integration & testing of a variety of PC Boards within a system.

The designer must be able to interact with a number of subject matter experts in a collaborative team to develop complex sensor systems on a variety of platforms.

The Senior Circuit Board Designer will perform a variety of design drawing tasks including RF/chip & wire PCB design, Rigid-flex PCB and various advanced electrical designs for aircraft based systems. The position will require working with engineers to accumulate all documentation of critical system components, requirements, environmental constraints, estimated size, weight and power, and schedule. This critical system component information will be used to generate custom printed circuit board design files and drawings that can be reviewed and changed by program team leads and managers.

Once the custom PCB designs and drawings are approved, the designs will be manufactured and integrated at the system level. The individual will need to generate complete electrical drawing packages to support the component procurement, PCB/MCM/substrate fabrication, assembly, and electrical inspection to insure accuracy and completeness of each design prior to system integration and test.

• Degree Level: Bachelor’s Degree
• Circuit Architectures and Algorithms
• CMOS Design
• New Circuit Characterization and Qualification
• PCB Design and Layout
• Printed Circuit Design and Fabrication
• Reconfigurable Circuits
• CAD/EDA/TCAD
• Mentor Graphics experience

• Hardware
• Hardware Design Tools such as Solid Works, PCB Layout Tools such as Altium Designer
• Aircraft, Missile, Satellite Systems

• Current experience with Mentor Graphics Expedition, DxDesigner & Altium.
• Expertise in parts selection
• Schematic capture experience
• Experience w/High Speed, Multi-Layer, Digital, Analog, RF, Flex, Controlled Impedance, Differential and Mixed Signal, (BGA’s, CCGA’s, Micro-Vias, Buried Resistors), Auto-routers.
• Demonstrated ability to design MCMs and work in various advanced RF dielectrics and substrate technologies.
• 10+ years relevant CAD experience.

• Experience with MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-464, MIL-STD-810
• Experience with Solid Works, Mentor Dx Data Book  and CES (Constraint Editor System) and IPC CID or CID+ certification.
• Experience working with electronics fabrication and assemblies facilities from preliminary quoting to final inspection after assembly.
• Experience with space grade components
• Experience with cable design

• BS or…