Sr Designer

TekWissen LLC

Longmont, CO

JOB DETAILS
SALARY
$92–$92
SKILLS
Best Practices, Cadence Allegro, Chipset, Component Selection, Computer Engineering, Computer Firmware, Cross-Functional, Crosstalk, DFT (Design for Test), Design for Assembly (DFA), Diversity, Double Data Rate SDRAM, Electrical Design, Electrical Engineering, Electricity, Electromagnetic Compatibility, Electromagnetic Interference (EMI), Electromagnetic Interference Mitigation, Embedded Systems, Ethernet, Failure Analysis, Graphic Design, Industry Standards, Maintain Compliance, Manufacturing, Manufacturing Assembly, Manufacturing Design, Mechanical Design, Memory Hardware, Mentor Graphics, Mentoring, Network Administration/Management, Network Design, Network Routing, Network System Hardware, Original Design Manufacturer (ODM), Outsourcing, PCB (Printed Circuit Board) Manufacturing, PCI Express (PCI-E), Printed Circuit Board (PCB), Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Layout, Printed Circuit Board Assembly (PCBA), Printed Circuit Board Design, Product Lifecycle, Product/Service Launch, Prototyping, Regulatory Compliance, SERDES, Schematic Capture, Schematics, Serial ATA (SATA), Signal Integrity, Storage Architecture, System Integration (SI), Technical Leadership, Technical/Engineering Design, Validation Testing, Workforce Management
LOCATION
Longmont, CO
POSTED
3 days ago
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide.
Title: Sr Designer
Work Location: Longmont, CO 80503
Duration: 12 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Job Description:
Position Summary:
  • We are seeking a highly skilled Senior ECAD PCB Layout and Design Engineer, utilizing Mentor Xpedition PCB design tools, to lead the design and development of complex printed circuit board assemblies (PCBAs) supporting next-generation server and storage platforms, including high-density systems such as 2U24 Servers and 2U20 JBOD (Just a Bunch of Disks) architectures.
  • This role requires deep expertise in Mentor Graphics tools, high-speed digital design, PCB architecture, signal integrity, power distribution, and system-level integration.
  • The successful candidate will work closely with electrical, mechanical, thermal, firmware, manufacturing, and validation teams to deliver reliable, high-performance products that meet demanding performance, reliability, and compliance requirements.
  • The engineer will serve as a technical leader throughout the product lifecycle-from concept and architecture through schematic development, PCB implementation, validation, compliance testing, and production release.
Key Responsibilities:
  • PCB Architecture & Design client General Information
  • Lead schematic capture, PCB architecture definition, component selection, and board-level design activities for server and storage products.
  • Design complex multilayer PCBAs supporting high-performance compute, storage, networking, and management functions.
  • Develop robust power distribution networks (PDN) and power sequencing solutions.
  • Ensure designs meet electrical, thermal, manufacturability, reliability, and cost objectives. High-Speed Signal Design
  • Design and validate high-speed interfaces including:
    • PCI Express (Gen4/Gen5 and beyond)
    • SAS (12G/24G) o SATA o NVMe over PCIe
    • Ethernet interfaces (10G/25G/40G/100G/400G)
    • DDR4 and DDR5 memory interfaces
    • High-speed backplane and SERDES-based interconnects
  • Perform design reviews focused on:
    • Controlled impedance implementation
    • Differential pair routing
    • Length matching
    • Return path continuity
    • Crosstalk mitigation
    • Via optimization and stub reduction
    • Power integrity and noise management Chassis-Level Integration
  • Collaborate with chassis, mechanical, and thermal teams to ensure successful integration within dense server and storage enclosures.
  • Evaluate board placement, connector strategies, airflow constraints, serviceability requirements, and manufacturability.
  • Support architecture decisions that balance performance, reliability, cost, and mechanical constraints. Design Reviews & Technical Leadership
  • Lead cross-functional engineering reviews.
  • Develop and maintain PCB design guidelines, best practices, and reusable design methodologies.
  • Mentor junior engineers and provide technical oversight to outsourced layout resources when applicable.
  • Review external design deliverables to ensure adherence to product and company standards. Client General Information Manufacturing Support
  • Partner with manufacturing, supplier quality, and NPI teams to support prototype builds and production ramp activities.
  • Investigate and resolve manufacturing, assembly, and field reliability issues.
  • Support DFM, DFA, and DFT initiatives.
Required Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related discipline.
  • 5 10+ years of experience in complex PCB and PCBA design.
  • Extensive experience utilizing Mentor Xpedition tools for the design, layout and routing of complex (up to 24 layers), high speed printed circuit boards
  • Proven experience designing boards for:
    • Enterprise servers
    • Storage systems
    • Networking equipment
    • High-performance embedded platforms
  • Strong expertise in:
    • High-speed digital design
    • Signal integrity fundamentals
    • Power integrity fundamentals
    • PCB stack-up development
    • EMI/EMC mitigation
  • Experience with modern ECAD design platforms such as:
    • Siemens Xpedition
    • Cadence Allegro
    • Altium Designer
    • Equivalent enterprise-level ECAD tools
  • Knowledge of DDR4/DDR5, PCIe, SAS, SATA, SERDES, and Ethernet technologies.
  • Experience interpreting vendor reference designs, compliance requirements, and chipset design guides.
  • Strong understanding of PCB fabrication and assembly processes.
Preferred Qualifications:
  • Experience with 2U server, JBOD, JBOF, or storage enclosure architectures.
  • Familiarity with BMC, management controllers, and platform management interfaces.
  • Client General Information
  • Experience supporting SI/PI simulations using industry-standard tools.
  • Knowledge of thermal design considerations for high-density systems.
  • Experience working with ODMs, EMS providers, and external design partners.
  • Understanding of firmware-hardware interactions and platform bring-up activities.
  • Exposure to lifecycle management, sustaining engineering, and field failure analysis.
Technical Skills:
  • High-Speed Design
  • PCIe Gen4/Gen5
  • SAS 12G/24G
  • SATA
  • NVMe
  • Ethernet 10G 400G
  • SERDES architectures
  • DDR4/DDR5 PCB Design
  • Mentor Graphics proficiency
  • Multilayer PCB design (up to 24 layers)
  • Controlled impedance routing
  • Differential pair design
  • Power distribution network design
  • Design for Manufacturability (DFM)
  • Design for Assembly (DFA)
  • Design for Test (DFT)
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TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

About the Company

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TekWissen LLC

WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE

TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.

To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.

Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.

It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.

Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.



COMPANY SIZE
100 to 499 employees
INDUSTRY
Computer/IT Services
FOUNDED
2009
WEBSITE
http://www.tekwissen.com/