ECAD Designer (Travel Required)

Quest Global is an organization at the forefront of innovation and one of the world’s fastest growing engineering services firms with deep domain knowledge and recognized expertise in the top OEMs across seven industries. We are a twenty-five-year-old company on a journey to becoming a centenary one, driven by aspiration, hunger and humility. 

We are looking for humble geniuses, who believe that engineering has the potential to make the impossible, possible; innovators, who are not only inspired by technology and innovation, but also perpetually driven to design, develop, and test as a trusted partner for Fortune 500 customers. 

As a team of remarkably diverse engineers, we recognize that what we are really engineering is a brighter future for us all. If you want to contribute to meaningful work and be part of an organization that truly believes when you win, we all win, and when you fail, we all learn, then we’re eager to hear from you.

The Quest Global team is seeking an Electrical Engineer with strong PCB layout skills to join our team as an ECAD designer.

Our mission is to develop best in industry technologies that align product capabilities to the needs of our aerospace customers. We will empower our people to leverage design commonality and innovation, balancing risk and rigor, to achieve predictable and affordable solutions. 

The achievers and courageous challenge-crushers we seek, have the following characteristics and skills:

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Printed Circuit Board (PCB) designs from conception to manufacturing
• Creation of the PCB, Circuit Card Assembly (CCA), and Schematic drawings for suppliers
• Schematic Capture, Component Placement, Routing of Traces, Gerber/ODB file creation
• Utilizing software such as Siemens: Xpedition Enterprise and DownStream Technologies: BluePrint-PCB
• Design layouts include Rigid, Flex, and Rigid-Flex assemblies
• Work designs include full designs, re-spins, drawing updates, change notices, copper changes, and process improvement projects within and outside own discipline
• Daily interface with various engineering levels along with different engineering disciplines including, but not limited to Electrical, Mechanical, Components, Test, and Producibility Engineering disciplines to ensure that the overall design requirements are captured, keeping cost, cycle time, and producibility in mind

Required Skills (Technical Competency):

• Typically requires a Bachelor’s in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 2 years of prior relevant experience, or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum one (1) year of experience
• Typically requires experience with at least one (1) of the following:
• Previous work history with PCB manufacturing or CCA manufacturing principles that affect circuitry and component layout
• Experience with layout of Rigid, Flex, or Rigid-Flex boards
• Experience with NX Xpedition
• Experience with the electrical engineering design process

Desired Skills:

• Working knowledge of Analog, Digital including DDR, specific experience with RF, Power, and mixed technology, including multi-layer designs with High Density Interconnect (HDI) technology
• Technical PCB design skills using the Siemens design toolset including, but not limited to the Xpedition Layout tool suite with working knowledge of schematic capture, placement, routing, use of the auto-router, constraint manager, and library tools, and use of BluePrint to create complex PCB and CCA drawings, Altium is not used, but transfers over well to the Siemens toolset
• Export manufacturing data in both Gerber and ODB formats
• Able to understand and interpret drawings as they relate to PCB’s and CCA’s
• Working knowledge of military and commercial design standards, GD&T techniques, and overall producibility considerations related to electronic packaging

Due to the nature of the work, U.S. citizenship is required

• Employees who are working in Onsite roles will work primarily onsite at the customer’s facility. 
• Shop floor environment, which may include but not limited to extensive walking, and ability to lift up to 40 lbs. 

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $110,000.00 - $130,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Referral program
• Vision insurance

Work Location: Remote with up to 50% travel