Your Job
The PCB Designer will be responsible for creating and optimizing PCB layouts, ensuring high-quality design for manufacturability, reliability, and performance. This position requires strong knowledge of PCB design principles, proficiency in design software, and a collaborative approach to work effectively with cross-functional teams, including hardware, firmware, signal integrity, and manufacturing.
Our Team
The PCB Design Engineering Team at Koch Industries is a talented and innovative group dedicated to developing state-of-the-art hardware solutions. We work collaboratively across disciplines to design, prototype, and test high-quality hardware components that support our company's growth and technological advancements. Join us to be part of a dynamic team that values creativity, excellence, and teamwork.
What You Will Do
- Execute PCB layout design for analog, digital, and mixed-signal boards using tools such as Altium Designer & Cadence Allegro.
- Work closely with electrical engineers to interpret schematics and translate design intent into accurate layouts.
- Handle multi-layer, high-density, fine-pitch components, impedance-controlled traces, and thermal management zones.
- Ensure optimal placement, routing, via management, and adherence to signal integrity and power delivery constraints.
DFM/DFMA Integration:
- Apply DFM principles to ensure that PCB designs are optimized for fabrication, assembly, testing, and repair.
- Incorporate design constraints like spacing rules, via types, material constraints, and component clearances to support high-yield manufacturing.
- Understand and implement DFMA guidelines, such as reducing component count, orientation consistency, and minimizing manual handling in assembly lines.
- Run DRC, ERC, and DFM checks and validate outputs using tools like Valor NPI, CAM350, or equivalent.
- Prepare complete fabrication and assembly documentation (Gerber/ODB++, assembly drawings, fab notes, pick-and-place files, stack-ups, etc.).
- Participate in design reviews with internal stakeholders and external manufacturing partners.
- Support prototyping and production builds, and assist in resolving design or manufacturing-related issues.
Cross-Functional Collaboration:
- Work closely with hardware engineers, SI/PI engineers, mechanical teams, and EMS vendors to ensure successful design-to-production transition.
- Provide input on component selection and library creation, ensuring part footprints follow IPC standards and are fabrication-friendly.
Process & Quality:
- Maintain and adhere to internal design guidelines and checklist reviews to ensure high design quality.
- Document and improve PCB design processes and share learnings with peers and new joiners.
High-Speed & Power Electronics Design:
- Work on high-speed interfaces (PCIe, DDR, USB, Ethernet, etc.).
- Design power distribution networks (PDN), LDOs, DC-DC converters, and ensure efficient power delivery.
Schematic & PCB Reviews:
- Conduct peer design reviews and cross-functional collaboration with electrical, mechanical, and SI/PI teams.
- Perform SI/PI analysis, power plane optimization, and constraint management.
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
BE/B Tech in Electrical/Electronic & Communication Engineering4 to 8 years of demonstrable experience as a PCB Design engineer.
Education:
Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).Experience: Minimum of 4-8 years of experience in PCB design, preferably with high-speed and/or complex multilayer boards and DFM/DFMA
What Will Put You Ahead
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to delivering high-quality designs.
- Effective communication skills to work with cross-functional teams and present design considerations.
- Problem-solving skills and adaptability to new tools and design challenges
Who We Are
Molex is a subsidiary of Koch Industries, an MNC and industry leader in electronic solutions. We support a wide range of industries like data communications, consumer electronics, industrial, automotive, medical etc. Our presence is in 223 locations across 40 countries. We have a portfolio of 100,000 electronic products and a dedicated R&D facility driving technological innovation in Bangalore. We make a connected world possible to enable technology that transforms the future. Global Engineering Service (GES) a business unit of Molex, develops innovative products and manufacturing processes around automotive in-vehicle networking, infotainment, Medical and lighting segments. You may not see our name on the shelves, but our electronic solutions are inside the products you use every day. We work together with the world’s innovators to design and manufacture electronic solutions that solve complex technical challenges. At Molex, we not only employ some of the most talented people from all over the world, we work to help cultivate tomorrow's For further breakthroughs. From our corporate headquarters in Lisle, IL to manufacturing floors around the world, the Molex team is dedicated to helping further the limits of technology.