PCB Design Engineer – Signal Integrity/Thermal Simulation

Role Overview

We are seeking a senior Hardware Design Engineer to design, redesign, simulate, and validate electronic hardware. The role focuses on KiCad-based PCB design and simulation-led redesign, specializing in signal integrity (SI)/electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), thermal simulation, or both.

Responsibilities

• Translate product requirements into circuit architectures, hardware specifications, and validated designs across digital, high-speed, power, analog, mixed-signal, sensor, communication, or RF applications.
• Use KiCad for schematic capture, component selection, multilayer PCB layout and routing, design-rule checks, bill of materials (BOM) preparation, and manufacturing documentation.
• Analyze existing PCB layouts and simulation results to identify SI/EMC or thermal issues, determine root causes, and define measurable acceptance criteria.
• Redesign PCB layouts to resolve identified issues while preserving the original schematic, netlist connectivity, and component selection.
• Simulate and assess impedance, reflections, crosstalk, return paths, temperature distribution, heat dissipation, and hotspots.
• Document design decisions, corrective actions, simulation results, and verification findings; support prototype bring-up, debugging, and validation.

Requirements

• 6+ years of hands-on electronics hardware and PCB design experience, including multilayer layouts and KiCad.
• 4+ years of practical experience in SI/EMC simulation, thermal simulation, or both.
• Strong knowledge of circuit analysis, component selection, datasheet interpretation, grounding, power distribution, signal integrity, thermal management, and DFM/DFT.
• Ability to correlate simulation results with PCB layout characteristics and assess model inputs, boundary conditions, material properties, and limitations.
• Experience with tools such as Ansys SIwave, HFSS, Cadence Sigrity, Keysight ADS, Ansys Icepak, FloTHERM, COMSOL Multiphysics, OpenFOAM, or equivalent.

Engagement Details

• Contract assignment, expected to start as soon as possible; approximately 13 weeks, with potential extension.
• Full-time commitment of 40 hours per week.
• Rate: $15/hour.
• Positions: 2.
• Assignment locations: Bangladesh, Brazil, Colombia, Egypt, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Turkey.
• Selection process: AI interview and interview with the delivery team.