Our client, a leading federal defense contractor is seeking a Sr CAD Specialist for our Undersea Systems Business Area in Canonsburg, PA. You will be responsible for working with Program Management, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Component Engineering to complete printed wiring board designs.

Primary responsibilities include schematic capture, layout design, schematic and layout constraints management, netlist and debug, annotation, layout post-processing, import and exporting of circuit card assembly documentation, schematic symbol creation and verification, footprint design and verification, padstack design, stack-up design, impedance and transmission line modeling, design rules check, error generation and resolution, exporting detailed design reports.

Duties also include the following:

- Handling expedited design requests, working several designs concurrently
- Daily reporting of design status
- Daily posting of designs files to server repository
- Frequent communications with design team
- Frequent hosting of screen share design review meetings
- Attending formal layout design reviews
- Completing design checklists
- Following layout lead technical direction
- Providing design data and files release as needed to meet schedule.

Required Skills

- Must be US Citizen due to government requirement
- Bachelor-s degree in a related specialized area or field or equivalent is required plus a minimum of 8 years of relevant CAD experience; or Master's degree plus a minimum of 6 years of relevant experience (13+ years of CAD exp is required if no degree)
- Have advanced understanding of industry standards for printed wiring board design and circuit card assembly to include IPC, J-STD, Mil-Spec, ASME, ESD, UL, and RoHS.- Candidate should also have knowledge of bare board fabrication and circuit card assembly processes, materials, and tolerances.
- Good understanding of electronic components physical and electrical characteristics, and thorough knowledge of layout circuit design topologies to include mixed signal, analog, digital, high speed, RF, linear and switching power supplies, high voltage, high current, and all varieties of communications and busses (Ethernet, PCI, VPX, DDR, RS485, SATA, USB, I2C, etc.).
- Should be proficient with Cadence Capture CIS and Allegro, Altium, Xpedition, Gerber, ODB++, CAM350, Valor, Polar Si9000, Zplanner, AutoCAD, eDrawings, SolidWorks, MS Teams, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, Adobe, and Windchill.
- Should be able to design to industry standards, follow internal design procedures and process requirements, troubleshoot and resolve design conflicts, provide design solutions, be observant for errors, be efficient and detail oriented, and have good technical communication skills.