AeroTech is hiring: PCB Designer in Pittsburgh

When you join the Precision Automation and Robotics evolution at Aerotech, located near Pittsburgh, PA in RIDC Park, O'Hara Township, you will join a company that is small enough that everyone makes a difference and large enough to work with today's latest and greatest technology. You will build an exceptional career with paid on-the-job training and opportunities for advancement, while aligning with a growing company that provides an extensive total rewards compensation system, including:

• Bonus payments every 6 months
• Rich health plan including parental leave
• Retirement planning with our 100% company-paid Employee Stock Ownership Trust
• Potential tuition reimbursement

You will help to improve lives with our innovative solutions that enable advanced manufacturing operations worldwide. Demand for Aerotech's advanced technology products continues to thrive, so we continue to expand!

Join the Aerotech Precision Automation and Robotics Careers evolution and Take Control of Your Career.
Position Summary:

A position in Aerotech's Electrical R&D department as a PCB Designer offers opportunities in design of our industry-leading motion control hardware. Responsibilities of a PCB Designer include analog and digital PCB layout, creation of PCB manufacturing documentation, and coordination with engineering and manufacturing teams to support our motion control hardware. In addition, this position optionally offers the opportunity to design, test, and troubleshoot basic electronic equipment. This role is focused on developing a valued technical expert who will produce high quality, detailed work based on established standards, guidelines and procedures.

This position is located at our headquarters in Pittsburgh, PA and offers the opportunity for a hybrid work schedule.
What will your day look like? At Aerotech, you will:

• Develop motion control components using cutting-edge technologies
• Collaborate with leading engineers in the field of automation and robotics on a close-knit team
• Work independently under the guidance of upper level engineers to draw schematics, place components, and complete routing for circuit boards using Altium Designer
• Generate and maintain BOMs, fabrication documents, detailed technical drawings, and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system design information for PCB designs
• Support on-site fabrication and/or component assembly of PCB designs
• Learn about Aerotech technologies to expand your responsibilities into other areas of design, troubleshooting, and testing of our motion control hardware

What will separate you from the rest? Experience with:

• Altium Designer software
• Multi-layer PCB design
• High speed signal routing
• Noise and EMI mitigation techniques on PCBs
• Electrical safety standards in PCB design
• PCB library management
• Advanced PCB technologies
• 2D or 3D CAD design
• Generating manufacturing documentation/drawings
• Clear communication and collaboration on a professional circuit board design team
• Independently managing and organizing technical design information
• Designing, testing, or troubleshooting basic electrical circuits

Minimum Qualifications:

• Vocational, associate, or bachelor's degree in Drafting, PCB design, Electrical Technology, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
  • Job duties and compensation are flexible depending on education and experience.
• Experience with a circuit design software tool
• Experience with PCB design concepts
• Experience with drafting documentation concepts
• Must be authorized to work in the US currently and in the future without employer sponsorship

As part of our development program, your position may include work experiences (via short-term rotations) in related roles (typically in different departments). Any such rotations will be arranged with your supervisor - aligning your interests with business needs as available.

Aerotech is committed to the concept and practice of equal employment opportunity and affirmative action. The Company's policy is to provide equal employment opportunity to all qualified applicants and employees regardless of their race, color, religion, age (40 or over), sex, national origin, disability, or veteran status. This policy applies to recruiting and hiring, training, promotion, compensation, benefits, transfer, layoff, and termination. The Company makes and will continue to make all employment decisions in a non-discriminatory manner.

The Company is collecting the information requested in this employment application for purposes of evaluating your suitability for hire by the Company. The Company will share the information that you provide in this employment application only with Company management officials who are involved in the hiring process or who are otherwise involved in making employment-related decisions on behalf of the Company.