PCB Layout Engineer - Mountain View, CA, United States
$150,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 6 August 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves owning the board-level physical design to transform accelerator silicon into systems, taking high-speed, high-power designs from placement through fabrication release.
What you'll do
- Own board-level physical design for AI accelerator systems, including stackup and impedance definition, placement, high-speed routing, and fabrication/assembly release packages.
- Own high-current power delivery layout and large fine-pitch BGA escape for advanced accelerator packages.
- Drive DFM/DFA with PCB fabrication and contract manufacturing partners, and support board bring-up and debug.
What you'll need
- Exceptional abilities in constraint-driven layout of complex high-speed, high-current boards, including controlled impedance and stackup definition, return-path and crosstalk management, length and skew matching, and via optimization.
- 8+ years of PCB layout experience on server, networking, or accelerator-class systems at high layer counts.
- Hands-on experience with industry-standard layout tools (Cadence Allegro, Siemens Xpedition, Altium, or equivalent) and release formats (Gerber, ODB++, IPC-2581).
- Demonstrated ability to work closely with signal-integrity, power-integrity, packaging, and hardware systems teams to implement and close complex constraint sets across package and board.
Nice to have
- 2.5D / 3D and multi-die package interfaces (CoWoS, EMIB, chiplets, HBM).
- Rigid-flex or backplane design.
- CAD automation scripting.
- IPC CID / CID+.
- Overseas PCB fabrication and PCBA partner management.
This role has been open 34 days — well below the 50-day median for Hardware Systems Engineering roles.
Hardware Systems Engineering · AI ML Hardware
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Open roles in category
964
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Median days open
50 d
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Median salary
$155k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, and who else is hiring
| Metric | DensityAI | All employers we track in this specialty (964 roles · 103 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 5 | 964 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 10 | 6145 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 34 d | 50 d (−16 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $155k |
Who's hiring in this category
- Intel Corporation · 71 open roles · median 33 d
- KLA Corporation · 65 open roles · median 42 d
- Teradyne · 55 open roles · median 27 d
- NVIDIA · 52 open roles · median 67 d
- Applied Materials · 49 open roles · median 63 d
- AMD · 45 open roles · median 44 d
How we counted: 964 open Hardware Systems Engineering (AI ML Hardware) roles from 103 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 15 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.