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PCB Layout Design Engineer

Ayar Labs
San Jose, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 3/8/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/8/2025
PCB Layout Design Engineer
 
Location:  San Jose, CA (ON-SITE)
 
Ayar Labs is seeking a PCB Layout Design Engineer to help us revolutionize high performance computing. This role will be responsible for maintaining PCB libraries and designing complex printed circuit boards for a novel photonic interconnect technology. Ayar Labs is a highly collaborative environment; the successful candidate will be organized and communicative.


Essential Functions
  • Design printed circuit boards according to complex electrical and mechanical requirements
  • Manage a component library database, creating and maintaining components: symbol and footprint
  • Create documentation for fabrication and manufacturing

Basic Qualifications
  • Bachelors or technical degree in relevant field
  • Strong familiarity with Altium and Allegro PCB Design Tools
  • 2 years of experience designing complex multi-layer PCBs, 12 layer
 
Preferred Qualifications
  • Familiarity with Allegro, design translation tools
  • Experience designing high-speed, controlled impedance, blind and buried vias
  • Experience designing flex and rigi-flex PCBs
  • Lab experience, soldering and reworking PCBs
  • Basic CAD tool experience (Solidworks, Fusion)
 
Salary range:  $104,000 - $136,000
 
NOTE TO RECRUITERS:
Principals only. We are not accepting resumes from recruiters for this position. Remuneration for recruiting activities is only applicable subject to a signed and executed agreement between the parties. Please don’t send candidates to Ayar Labs, and do not contact our managers.
 
About Ayar Labs:
 
At Ayar Labs we’re about to revolutionize computing by moving data with light.  We’re unleashing processing power for artificial intelligence, high performance computing, cloud and telecommunications by removing the bottlenecks created by today’s electrical I/O -- making it possible to continue scaling computing system performance.  Ayar Labs is the first to deliver an optical I/O solution that combines in-package optical I/O chiplets and multi-wavelength remote light sources to replace traditional electrical I/O.  This silicon photonics-based I/O solution enables chips to communicate with each other from millimeters to kilometers, to deliver orders of magnitude improvements in latency, bandwidth density, and power consumption.
With our strong collaborations with industry leaders and government, our deep ties to MIT and UC Berkeley, and our commitment to hiring the best engineers in photonics and electronics, joining our team gives you the opportunity to collaborate with renowned experts on challenging, paradigm-shifting work.
We are passionate about delivering in-package optical I/O at scale, leveraging the strength of our patent portfolio and our team of leading interdisciplinary experts.  We believe that deep cross-collaboration between teams facilitated by honest, open debate is the best way to drive innovation and achieve big wins.   Join our team and experience the possibilities.
Resources:
Executives from Intel and GLOBALFOUNDRIES share their thoughts on Ayar Labs and the promise of in-package optical I/O (video)
Ayar Labs in the News and Recent announcements
 LinkedIn and Twitter

Ayar Labs is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and is strongly committed to all policies which will afford equal opportunity employment to all qualified persons without regard to age, national origin, race, ethnicity, creed, gender, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Salary : $104,000 - $136,000

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