Qualcomm PWB Designer Senior 

Taiwan, Hsinchu 

341167289

Job Area:

Engineering Services Group, Engineering Services Group > PWB Design

Role / Skills / Experience

The successful candidate will operate as a member of the Corporate Engineering unit, PWB CAD department, and will be able to design and document printed wiring board layouts that conform to manufacturing and industry standards and Qualcomm design guidelines. Working in close coordination with electrical and mechanical design teams from supplied schematics and electrical and mechanical design constraints to develop PWB layouts that meet all project goals and requirements for a variety of new 5G designs across multiple business units (R&D, Mobile, PC/Compute, IOT, Infrastructure, Automotive, Test Equipment).

For example:

- 'form factor accurate' (FFA) test platform high volume circuit boards. These boards require mastery in digital processors, RF, and radio circuits as well as power control devices. Experience with micro-vias (stacked), sequential lamination stack-ups and design rules using .5mm pitch and smaller packages. Responsibilities include working with US and India teams to provide PWB design solutions for high performance electronic assemblies for Mobile, Modem and IOT.

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.

High School diploma or equivalent and 7+ years of PCB layout handling or related work experience.

Minimum Qualifications

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

• 3+ 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.

Education Requirements

Bachelor's or Master's Degree in a Technical Field, Electronics preferred

Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.