Principal Lab Technician, Reading, UK
READING, UK
As part of the hardware-platform team you will be in charge of PCB CAD designs & peripheral activities.
Responsibilities:
- To be the main contact for HWPLT PCB CAD designs
- Secure taking over from Sequans HWPLT soon retiring PCB CAD designer: either taking over our PADS library maintenance or setting up an Altium environment (PADS prefered)
- Working with engineers reviewing technical requirement documentation
- RFIC team liaisons for characterisation HW design related activities
- Baseband, SW, integration & marketing teams liaisons for system HW design
- Characterisation and system evaluation board schematics capture of design specifications & layout design according to standard guidelines and input from HW engineers
- Concept schematics & placement
- Expert for PCB technologies & recommendations
- Maintain BOM of the PCB designs
- Manage design documentation
- Support 3rd party manufacturing
- To get quotation for PCB manufacturing and assembly, raise shopping cart and track schedule
- To manage component stock, sourcing, risk buy awareness and kitting with help of technician
- To be aware of engineering schedule, HW need schedule
- To estimate task duration and share awareness on technical difficulties & preferences
- To work with third party if overload require additional PCB CAD temporary resources
- To work with OPS team and third party agreeing on socket clearance
Requirements:
- HND or engineering degree in electronics
- 10 years work experience with PCB CAD design tools PADS prefered but Altium also a possibility
- Keen to take PCB CAD designer senior engineer role, assess workload, being responsible to meet schedule or raise early warning
- Experience with both schematics and layout, creating new components, maintaining a library, HW design guidelines
- Good basic understanding of analogue/digital electronics circuits
- Good understanding of State of the art PCB manufacturing processes and technology
- Understanding of RF, power supplies, clock routing requirements
- Awareness of track crosstalk risks, RF leakage/shielding
- PCB technology expertise: type of vias, dielectrics, copper thickness, stack up, multi layers.
- Thermal dissipation, PCB mechanical constraints, delamination, warping, component assembly rotation hazard, mechanical clearance, shield designs and mounting
- Experience with RF up to 8GHz, telecom RF PCB design
- Experience with both schematics and layout, creating new components, maintaining a library, HW design guidelines
- Self-motivated, team player, able to pro-actively communicate with all employees and work well in a fast paced environment within a multicultural team and at all levels. Able to work autonomously too, and able to assess workload.
- Must have excellent communication and presentation skills
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