Senior Electrical Engineer- PCBA Designer - San Diego, CA, United States
$152,600 - $209,825 USD yearly
Originally posted 14 October 2026 by the employer.
Design, develop, integrate, and qualify complex Printed Circuit Board Assemblies for ASML’s electronic control systems.
About the role
As a Senior Electrical Engineer- PCBA Designer, you will design, develop, integrate, and qualify complex Printed Circuit Board Assemblies used in ASML’s electronic control systems. This involves defining board-level architectures and developing schematics for demanding semiconductor manufacturing environments.
What you'll do
- Design and develop complex active PCBAs for electronic control systems.
- Define board-level architectures for FPGA, processor, memory, communication, and sensor-interface functions.
- Develop and maintain schematics using ASML-approved design tools and methodologies.
- Select and qualify components to meet functionality, reliability, lifecycle, EMC, and manufacturability requirements.
- Perform board bring-up, verification, debugging, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis.
- Support PCB layout reviews and guide placement, routing, stack-up, and high-speed implementation decisions.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Minimum of 10 years of industry experience in electronic hardware development.
- Minimum of 7 years of experience designing complex active PCBAs.
- Demonstrated experience with FPGA, processor, memory, and high-speed communication interfaces.
- Demonstrated experience using LTspice or comparable SPICE-based simulation tools to analyze and validate analog, mixed-signal, and power-electronics circuits.
- Experience validating simulations of high-speed board design and verifying quality in the lab using iBert and other eye pattern test tools.
- Strong knowledge of FPGA-based and processor-based board architectures.
- Knowledge of high-speed protocols and interfaces, including PCIe, Ethernet, SRIO, DDR, SPI, SRIO, and I2C, for 1 – 25 Gbps.
- Understanding of signal integrity, power integrity, clocking, grounding, shielding, and high-speed design constraints.
- Proficiency with LTspice or equivalent SPICE-based tools for circuit simulation, including transient, AC, DC operating-point, tolerance, and worst-case analysis, along with experience in schematic capture, PCB layout guidelines, and PCBA development tools such as Xpedition, Altium Designer, or equivalent.
- Strong board-, module-, and system-level troubleshooting skills using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, and protocol analyzers.
- Knowledge of robust design practices, reliability methods, and hardware qualification methods, including MTBF, HALT, ALT, and DFMEA.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with AMD/Xilinx based SoC design.
Skills: PCBA design, board-level architectures, schematic capture, signal integrity, board bring-up
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 54-day median for Hardware Systems Engineering roles.
Hardware Systems Engineering · Manufacturing Equipment
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Open roles in category
32
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Median days open
54 d
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Median salary
$160k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | ASML | All employers we track in this specialty (32 roles · 13 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 4 | 32 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 60 | 6164 · 146 employers |
| Median days open | 2 d | 54 d (−52 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $160k |
Skills observed across this category: PCBA design, board-level architectures, schematic capture, signal integrity, board bring-up
Who's hiring in this category
- Lam Research · 6 open roles · median 98 d
- Keysight Technologies · 4 open roles · median 59 d
- Teradyne · 4 open roles · median 104 d
- ASML (this employer) · 3 open roles · median 1 d
- Onto Innovation · 3 open roles · median 83 d
- Applied Materials · 2 open roles · median 113 d
How we counted: 32 open Hardware Systems Engineering (Manufacturing Equipment) roles from 13 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 14 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.