Your Title: Technical PCB Designer
Job Location: Sunnyvale, CA-Onsite
Department: Corporate Manufacturing
What You Will Do
Step into a pivotal role where your designs shape our final product quality and success. As a PCB Designer, you will architect high-quality, multilayer circuit boards featuring high pin count and fine pitch components, the technical backbone of our cutting-edge positioning products. This highly visible role demands considerable judgment and initiative, requiring you to collaborate seamlessly with R&D, Operations, Manufacturing, and external fabricators to ensure not only innovation but also reliable manufacturability.
Responsibilities
- Design high-quality, multilayer RF and High-Speed digital PCBs, including HDI and standard mechanical-drill designs.
- Apply expertise in high-speed design principles, grounding, impedance control, and stack-up optimization.
- Create and manage constraints based on schematics, design rules, and mechanical specifications.
- Incorporate continuous improvements for Design for Manufacturing (DFM) and Design for Test (DFT) throughout the product lifecycle.
- Create, edit, and audit component footprints.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define project specifications and ensure PCBA designs meet overall product requirements.
- Identify, troubleshoot, and solve complex PCB engineering problems.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to peers and promote best-in-class (BiC) design practices across the global team.
- Maintain and contribute to the development of design tools.
What Skills & Experience You Should Bring
- Bachelor of Science in Electronics or appropriate educational credentials.
- Minimum of four years of relevant professional PCB design experience.
- Proficiency in Cadence Allegro 23.1 or newer.
- Expertise in a wide range of PCB and circuit technologies including RF, High-Speed, Analog, Digital, Power Supply Units (PSU), and Flex technologies.
- Deep understanding of high-volume design principles, embedded DFM, and relevant IPC standards.
- Experience with Design for EMC and safety requirements.
- Familiarity with Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to work effectively independently or as part of a multi-functional team.
- Highly analytical, self-motivated, and detail-oriented approach to problem-solving.
- Experience with Skill programming language.
- Experience with mechanical design integration.
- Working knowledge of relevant IPC standards.
- Self-motivated, with a strong focus on results.
- Ability to work independently or as an effective team member.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
About Your Location
Trimble's Sunnyvale, California, office holds a critical strategic and historical position within the company, despite the corporate headquarters officially relocating to Westminster, Colorado, in October 2022. The Sunnyvale location has been formally designated as the Silicon Valley Center for Innovation and Operations. This designation reflects its enduring importance as a hub of technological development and corporate functions, having been the center of innovation since Trimble was founded in 1978.
About Trimble’s Corporate Manufacturing Team
The focus of Trimble's corporate manufacturing is on maintaining proprietary technologies and processes in-house, viewing its engineers as the "soul and incarnation of [its] competitive edge". The PCB Designer team is therefore a core, highly valued function responsible for designing the GNSS receivers, scanners, total stations, and laser rangefinders that are the backbone of Trimble's geospatial, construction, and transportation solutions.
Compensation: Trimble provides the following compensation range and general description of other compensation and benefits that it in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position. This compensation range is based on a full time schedule. Trimble reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, or federal law.
Hiring Range
$30.17–$38.52
Pay Rate Type
Hourly
Bonus Eligible?
No
Commission Eligible?
No
Benefits: Trimble offers comprehensive core benefits that include Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, Time off plans and retirement plans. Most of our businesses also offer tax savings plans for health, dependent care and commuter expenses as well as Paid Parental Leave and Employee Stock Purchase Plan. If this position is identified above as commission- or bonus-eligible, the terms of the commission plan or discretionary bonus plan for which you are eligible will be provided following the employee start date.
How to Apply: Please submit an online application for this position by clicking on the ‘Apply Now’ button located in this posting.
Application Deadline: Applications could be accepted until at least 30 days from the posting date.
At Trimble, we are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace where everyone can thrive. Guided by our core values—Belong, Innovate, and Grow—we embrace and celebrate differences, knowing they make us stronger and more innovative. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, welcoming individuals of all backgrounds and advancing opportunities while embracing race, color, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, disability, veteran status, or any other protected and diverse characteristic. We are committed to offering our candidates and employees with disabilities or sincerely held religious beliefs the ability to seek reasonable accommodations in accordance with applicable law and/or where it would not constitute undue hardship for Trimble. For more, please see Trimble's Code of Business Conduct and Ethics at https://investor.trimble.com, under “Corporate Governance.”
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