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About Cognizant
Cognizant is a multinational IT services and consulting company offering digital transformation, technology, and business process services. It serves clients across financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and other industries worldwide.
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The PCB Design Engineer joins the Paragon Program Hardware Engineering team to develop high-quality, manufacturable hardware solutions for mission-critical industrial applications. This role involves leading end-to-end PCB layout activities, including constraint definition, stack-up development, component placement, routing, and NPI support. The engineer will design complex boards optimized for signal integrity, power distribution networks, thermal management, and EMC compliance while ensuring safety requirements like creepage and clearance are met. Key technical skills include proficiency in Altium Designer, Cadence Allegro/OrCAD, or Mentor Xpedition to manage HDI designs, microvias, and rigid-flex architectures. The candidate will generate manufacturing data such as ODB++, Gerber X2, and IPC netlists while adhering to IPC and IEC standards. This position focuses on solving technical challenges for industrial, embedded, and ruggedized electronic products through advanced multi-layer board design and cross-functional collaboration.
Lead end-to-end PCB layout activities including constraint definition, stack-up development, component placement, and routing.
Design high-speed layouts with controlled impedance, differential pair routing, and advanced via structures like back-drilling.
Optimize Power Distribution Networks (PDN) for power integrity, decoupling, and thermal management.
Develop complex multilayer boards including HDI, microvias, and rigid-flex architectures.
Ensure designs meet DFM, DFA, and DFT standards for manufacturing readiness and testability.
Generate and manage production data including ODB++, Gerber files, BOMs, and MCAD integration files.
Ensure hardware compliance with IPC standards and safety requirements like EMC, creepage, and clearance.
Support prototype builds, design reviews, and troubleshooting throughout the product lifecycle.
What we're looking for
5+ years of hands-on PCB layout and design experience for industrial, embedded, or ruggedized electronic products.
Advanced proficiency in Altium Designer, Cadence Allegro/OrCAD, and/or Mentor Xpedition.
Proven track record of delivering complex, high-speed, controlled-impedance, power-dense, and isolated PCB designs including HDI and rigid-flex technologies.
Expertise in EMC-conscious layout techniques, power integrity (PI), thermal management, and creepage/clearance requirements.
Experience designing multilayer PCB assemblies ranging from simple designs to complex 12+ layer boards.
Knowledge of DFM, DFA, DFT methodologies, and production readiness processes.
Ability to generate and manage ODB++, IPC-2581, Gerber X2, IPC-356 netlists, BOM documentation, and MCAD integration files.
Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a related technical discipline (preferred).
Altium
FPGA
Analog Design
Digital Design
Signal Integrity
Power Supply Design
UART
RS422
RS485
I2C
SPI
CAN
USB
Ethernet
SPICE
PSPICE
HSPICE
PCIe
DDRx
LPDDRx
NAND
NOR
EMI/EMC
Schematic Capture
PCB Design
Siemens/Mentor Xpedition
Cadence Allegro
DFM
Valor
CAM350
High-Speed Digital
RF
Analog
HDI
Multi-layer Stack-ups
EMI Mitigation
DDR5
HDMI
PCIe
SATA
MIPI
USB
GigE