# PCB Layout Engineering Lead

**Company:** [Cerebras Systems](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/cerebras-systems)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Hardware Engineering
**Salary:** $210k – $230k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Pcb Layout, Cadence Allegro, Constraint Manager, Altium Designer, Signal Integrity, Power Integrity, Bga Routing, Hdi, Differential Pairs, Pcie, Ddr5, Serdes, Ipc Standards, Emi/Emc, Allegro Skill
**Posted:** 2026-09-03

> Leads physical implementation and production release of complex, high-speed PCBs for AI and server systems. Requires 10+ years of PCB layout experience, strong SI/PI expertise, and proficiency with Cadence Allegro.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own multilayer PCB layout from component placement through fabrication and assembly release.
- Translate schematics, mechanical constraints, and electrical requirements into constraint-driven board designs.
- Define board stackups, controlled-impedance structures, routing rules, reference planes, return paths, and length- and phase-matching constraints.
- Place and route high-speed digital, high-current power, and sensitive analog circuits, including dense BGA fanout and differential interfaces.
- Apply signal-integrity and power-integrity practices to minimize crosstalk, discontinuities, noise, voltage drop, and EMI.
- Collaborate with electrical, SI/PI, mechanical, thermal, compliance, manufacturing, and test engineers.
- Work with fabrication and assembly partners to validate stackups and via structures and improve yield, cost, and schedule.
- Perform design reviews and DFM, DFA, and DFT checks.
- Generate and verify fabrication drawings, assembly drawings, drill data, Gerbers, ODB++, IPC-2581, and related release packages.
- Maintain component footprints, padstacks, design libraries, layout standards, and release documentation.
- Support prototype builds, board bring-up, failure analysis, and production layout revisions.

## Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, electronics engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10+ years of hands-on experience laying out complex, high-speed, multilayer printed circuit boards.
- Expertise with Cadence Allegro PCB Designer and Constraint Manager; experience with Altium Designer or equivalent tools.
- Strong knowledge of component placement, controlled-impedance routing, differential pairs, length matching, return-path continuity, and power distribution.
- Experience with dense BGA escape routing, HDI structures, blind and buried vias, microvias, via-in-pad, and backdrilling.
- Working knowledge of signal integrity, power integrity, EMI/EMC, thermal design, creepage and clearance, and high-current routing.
- Experience applying IPC standards and fabrication, assembly, test, and manufacturability requirements.
- Ability to create and review complete PCB fabrication and assembly release packages.
- Experience working on server hardware, AI accelerators, datacenter hardware, GPUs, CPUs, TPUs, or server platforms.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary teams.

## Preferred Qualifications
- Experience designing large, high-layer-count boards for compute, networking, server, or AI accelerator systems.
- Experience routing DDR4/DDR5, PCIe Gen4/Gen5 or later, Ethernet, USB, and multi-gigabit SerDes interfaces.
- Experience with high-current, low-voltage power delivery, VRM placement, decoupling strategy, copper balancing, and thermal optimization.
- Experience developing Allegro SKILL scripts or other automation for layout and release efficiency.
- Demonstrated success delivering first-pass functional boards and supporting products from prototype through volume production.

## Compensation
- Base salary range: **$210,000–$230,000+ annually**.
- Additional compensation may include bonus and equity.

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