Printed Circuit Board Designer

TRAK TECOM designs, builds, and delivers advanced RF electronic solutions and antenna systems for mission-critical performance across the aerospace and defense industry.

Our RF microwave and antenna solutions support Electronic Warfare (EW), Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR), Radar, Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT), Telemetry, Tracking, Command & Datalink, and Communications helping customers achieve reliability, resilience, and high performance in the harshest operating environments. U.S. citizenship required. U.S. citizenship is required to obtain a government security clearance.

This is an intermediate level position. Initial training will provide company specific fundamentals of PCB design, PCB Library usage, PLM system usage, PCB fabrication documentation, and PCA documentation. Training will also include electrical and mechanical design interaction and design validation processes. After initial training, the PCB Designer will:

• Use Schematic creation and PCB layout design software (DxDesigner, PADS)
• Create PCB drawings and Gerber files for PCB fabrication (PADS, AutoCAD)
• Use and modify CAD models and drawings (PADS, AutoCAD)
• Create and check component footprints according to IPC and company standards
• Interface with other Engineers about component footprints and circuit layouts
• Utilize basic rules of design

After initial training, your duties will include:

• The design and layout of printed circuit boards for Radio Frequency (RF), mixed signal, and hi-speed circuits based on industry and company standards and procedures
• Generation, modification and release of accurately detailed documents, drawings, 3D models and files for schematics, PCB fabrication, bill of materials, and assembly drawings using CAD tools along with Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems
• Support Engineers during prototyping, design verification, and updates to designs
• Collaboration with Electrical, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Engineers, and Designers
• Support of technical proposal generation, peer/customer design reviews, and supplier enquiries
• Other duties as required

• Shall have a minimum of 2 years of experience with PCB design, CAD, electronics assembly or test, or applicable experience in military or aerospace industry.
• Shall have experience with IPC-2221, IPC-7351 and IPC-A-610 standards. Experience with ASME Y 14.100, and ASME Y 14.5, (GD&T) is a plus.

Associate degree in Arts/Science (A.A./A.S.), technical/trade school, or military training. Equivalent experience will be considered.

U.S. citizenship required. U.S. citizenship is required to obtain government security clearance.