PWB Designer, Senior - Cork, Ireland

## Company:

QT Technologies Ireland Limited

Job Area:

Engineering Services Group, Engineering Services Group > PWB Design

General Summary:

Qualcomm is a company of inventors that unlocked 5G ushering in an age of rapid acceleration in connectivity and new possibilities that will transform industries, create jobs, and enrich lives. But this is just the beginning. It takes inventive minds with diverse skills, backgrounds, and cultures to transform 5Gs potential into world-changing technologies and products. This is the Invention Age - and this is where you come in.

This role will require an on-site presence in the Cork Office

About the Role:

The successful candidate will join the Corporate Engineering Unit, PWB CAD Department, where they will be responsible for designing and documenting printed wiring board (PWB) layouts that comply with manufacturing standards, industry best practices, and Qualcomm design guidelines. Working closely with electrical and mechanical engineering teams, they will translate schematics and design constraints into high-quality PWB layouts that meet project goals across a range of advanced 5G products and platforms, including Mobile, Compute, IoT, Infrastructure, Automotive, R&D, and Test Equipment.

The role involves supporting Automotive, Mobile, Infrastructure, IoT, and Compute programs, including the development of form factor accurate (FFA) high-volume test platforms and circuit boards. These complex designs require expertise in high-speed digital processing, RF and radio frequency circuitry, and power management systems. Candidates should have experience designing boards utilizing stacked microvias, sequential lamination stack-ups, and advanced design rules for fine-pitch components (0.5 mm and below).

Responsibilities include:

• Collaborating with engineering teams in the US and India to deliver innovative PWB design solutions for high-performance electronic assemblies supporting Mobile, Modem, and IoT technologies.

• The successful candidate will also work closely with internal stakeholders and external manufacturing partners to ensure successful PWB fabrication and assembly.

Minimum Qualifications

• Candidates should be proficient in industry-standard PCB design tools such as Altium Designer, Siemens/Mentor Xpedition, PADS, or Cadence Allegro, and have a proven track record of developing complex PWB design solutions across a variety of product applications.

• 5+ years actively involved in PWB design for high-density electronics packaging.

• 5+ years’ experience in a PWB design role designing consumer-grade mobile products or low volume test products utilizing latest generation processor chips & ICs.

• Design for Manufacture (DFM) analysis experience utilizing Valor and/or CAM350 tools.

Preferred Qualifications

• Design experience: RF, Analog, High-speed digital circuits - DDR2, 3 & 4, HDMI, PCIe, SATA, MIPI, USB 2,3.x, GigE, ATE Platforms: 93K, uFlex and iFlex.

• Expected to possess expert understanding and demonstrated application of PWB design principles, practices, and standards.

• Able to perform complex and difficult PWB design tasks requiring extensive skill and knowledge of fabrication and assembly process capabilities and limitations.

• Develops solutions to a variety of complex problems and proposes PWB design trade-offs to the engineering design team for resolution and implementation.

• Determine PWB design trade-offs necessary to meet design requirements and produce high quality cost effective PWB’s that meet schedule objectives.

• Understands the requirements driving PWB technology and process trends and their application to Qualcomm designs.

• Maintain technical coordination with Engineering and Manufacturing. Resolve PWB design issues with fabrication and assembly vendors.

• Participate and provide input into process improvement, PWB and DFM checklists and guidelines.

• Participates in determining objectives of assignment and plans, schedules, and arranges own activities in accomplishing objectives.

• Experience working with various EMI mitigation techniques and practices.

• Experience with IDF/EMN file exchange between mechanical and HW teams.

• Understands project goals and individual contribution toward those goals.

• Effectively communicates with project peers and engineering personnel via e-mail, web meetings, and instant messaging including status reports and illustrative presentation slides.

• Interact and collaborate with other internal PWB designers for optimal product development processes and schedule execution.

• Effectively multitasks and meets aggressive schedules in a dynamic environment.

• Prepare and deliver design reviews to project team.

• Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Leadership skills to help direct, prioritize, and clearly set project tasks per schedule. Communicate milestones and directions to outside team members.

Where you will be working

Cork has a proud reputation as Ireland's second largest economic engine and is now one of the Top 20 location choices in Europe with 39,000 people being employed by over 170 overseas companies. There's a growing diversity in the region with people from many nationalities relocating to Cork, relishing the opportunity to work and live in a location that offers an excellent quality of life. A gateway to Europe, Cork airport provides access to almost 50 international destinations including transatlantic air routes.

Equal Opportunities We are an Equal Opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any protected classification.

What's on Offer

Apart from working in an open, relaxed and collaborative space, you will enjoy:

• Salary, stock and performance related bonus

• Maternity/Paternity Leave

• Employee stock purchase scheme

• Matching pension scheme

• Education Assistance

• Relocation and immigration support (if needed)

• Life, Medical, Income and Travel Insurance

• Subsidised memberships for physical and mental well-being

• Bicycle purchase scheme

• Employee run clubs, including, running, football, chess, badminton + many more

Minimum Qualifications:

• Associate's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or related field and 5+ years of PCB layout handling or related work experience. OR High School diploma or equivalent and 7+ years of PCB layout handling or related work experience.

*References to a particular number of years experience are for indicative purposes only. Applications from candidates with equivalent experience will be considered, provided that the candidate can demonstrate an ability to fulfill the principal duties of the role and possesses the required competencies.

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