Help develop the highly reliable electronic systems and connectivity solutions that enable ASML's EUV source and lithography technology.
As a PCBA Designer at ASML, you'll lead the design, development, integration, and validation of complex electronic connectivity solutions. You'll help shape electrical architectures involving PCBAs, cabling, interconnects, racks, and subsystem integration while ensuring designs meet demanding EMC, signal integrity, safety, and reliability requirements.
Working in multidisciplinary teams, you'll guide designs from concept through qualification and production while helping define the technologies and engineering practices that support future ASML systems.
Role and responsibilities
You'll serve as a senior technical leader for electronics connectivity and EMC, working across engineering disciplines and with suppliers to develop robust hardware solutions for complex semiconductor manufacturing equipment.
As Senior Electrical Engineer - PCBA Design Engineer, you'll:
Lead development of electrical connectivity architectures, including PCBAs, cables, harnesses, racks, cabinets, and subsystem interconnects.
Define and maintain electronic hardware requirements, specifications, interface definitions, and validation plans.
Design, review, and qualify PCBAs used in control, monitoring, and communication applications.
Perform electrical architecture trade studies to optimize performance, reliability, manufacturability, serviceability, and cost.
Drive EMC/EMI compliance throughout the product development lifecycle, including design reviews, mitigation strategies, and qualification testing.
Define design rules and layout constraints for signal integrity, grounding, shielding, high-speed interfaces, and EMC performance.
Support schematic capture, component selection, design verification, and root-cause analysis.
Lead troubleshooting and failure-analysis activities at the board, module, and system levels.
Collaborate with system architects, software engineers, mechanical engineers, manufacturing engineers, suppliers, and development partners to deliver robust electronic solutions.
Review supplier designs and provide technical guidance on electrical design, EMC performance, and qualification readiness.
Contribute to technology roadmaps involving connectivity, electronics reliability, and high-speed communication interfaces.
Provide technical guidance in technologies including cPCI, PCIe, PLC, EtherCAT, Ethernet, photodetectors, differential signaling, wideband circuits, high-speed embedded computing, VHDL, distributed signal acquisition, and signal integrity.
Support project planning activities and communicate technical risks, project status, and mitigation plans to stakeholders and management.
Mentor and coach junior engineers and project teams.
Transfer technical knowledge to Manufacturing, Service, and Support organizations.
Perform other duties as assigned.
Education and experience
To help us solve some of the most complex electronics challenges in the semiconductor industry, you'll need significant experience developing high-reliability electronic hardware and integrating electronics into complex systems.
As Senior Electrical Engineer - PCBA Design Engineer, you'll need:
Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering; an advanced degree is preferred.
At least 10 years of industry experience in electronic hardware development.
At least 5 years of experience designing PCBAs and electronic modules for semiconductor, industrial, aerospace, medical, automotive, or similarly demanding applications.
Strong knowledge of analog and digital circuit-design fundamentals.
Knowledge of FPGA design technologies.
Demonstrated experience developing electrical connectivity solutions, including cabling, harnesses, racks, enclosures, and interconnect systems.
Strong experience with PCBA design, schematic capture, component selection, design review, design validation, and hardware release.
Hands-on experience with EMC/EMI design techniques, qualification testing, and emissions and immunity testing.
Experience defining grounding, shielding, filtering, and signal integrity strategies for complex electronic systems.
Experience troubleshooting analog and digital electronics at the board, module, and system levels.
Experience using laboratory equipment such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, and communication bus analyzers.
Experience with schematic capture and hardware design tools. Experience with Capital, XPedition, Altium Designer, or similar platforms is preferred.
Familiarity with high-speed and digital communication interfaces such as Ethernet, SPI, I2C, UART, RS-232, RS-422, RS-485, and PCIe.
Understanding of reliability engineering concepts such as MTBF, HALT, ALT, and DFMEA.
Experience with configuration management and engineering change processes.
Experience collaborating with suppliers and outsourced development partners.
Experience with the following is a plus:
EMC certification and compliance testing to IEC, EN, CISPR, FCC, CE, or equivalent standards.
High-speed digital PCB design and signal integrity analysis.
Functional safety principles and electronics safety requirements.
Hardware qualification in regulated or high-reliability product environments.
Semiconductor capital equipment, industrial automation, motion control, or precision mechatronic systems.
Leading technical investigations involving EMC-related field issues.
SAFe Agile methodologies.
Skills
Working at the cutting edge of technology means solving problems that cross traditional engineering boundaries. You'll collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and global partners, balancing electrical performance, reliability, manufacturability, serviceability, safety, and cost.
To thrive in this job, you'll need the following skills:
Strong technical leadership and systems-thinking capability.
Deep understanding of electronic connectivity, EMC, grounding, shielding, signal integrity, and electrical integration principles.
Strong knowledge of analog and digital electronics.
Hands-on hardware design experience spanning requirements definition, detailed design and review, component selection and evaluation, procurement, validation, and release.
Excellent troubleshooting, problem-solving, and root-cause analysis skills.
Ability to identify technical risks and drive timely resolution.
Ability to communicate complex technical concepts effectively to technical and non-technical audiences.
Strong written communication skills, including the development of technical specifications, design documentation, validation plans, and engineering reports.
Ability to mentor, influence, and provide technical direction to engineering teams.
Ability to establish effective working relationships with global stakeholders, suppliers, and development partners.
Strong ownership, accountability, and decisiveness.
Strong customer focus and commitment to product quality.
High attention to detail and commitment to engineering excellence.
Ability to work independently with limited supervision while providing technical leadership across multiple projects.
Ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
Other Information
This position is located on-site in San Diego, CA . It requires onsite presence to attend in-person work-related events, trainings and meetings and to further ensure teamwork, collaboration and innovation.
A flexible workplace arrangement may be available to employees working in roles conducive to remote work (up to two days a week).
Routinely required to sit; walk; talk; hear; use hands to keyboard, finger, handle, and feel; stoop, kneel, crouch, twist, reach, and stretch. Occasionally required to move around the campus.
Occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
Must be willing to work in a clean room environment, wearing coveralls, hoods, booties, safety glasses and gloves for entire duration of shift.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee routinely is required to sit; walk; talk; hear; use hands to keyboard, finger, handle, and feel; stoop, kneel, crouch, twist, reach, and stretch.
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The current base annual salary range for this role is currently: $143,063-209,825
Pay scales are determined by role, level, location and alignment with market data. Individual pay is determined through interviews and an assessment of several factors that that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, relevant education and experience, certifications, abilities of the candidate and pay relative to other team members.
The Company offers employees and their families, medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Employees are able to participate in the Company's 401k plan. Employees will also receive eight (8) hours of vacation leave every month and (13) paid holidays throughout the calendar year. For more information, please contact the Recruiter or click on this link Compensation & Benefits in the US .
All new ASML jobs have a minimum application deadline of 10 days.
This position requires access to controlled technology, as defined in the United States Export Administration Regulations (15 C.F.R. § 730, et seq.). Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to access such controlled technology prior to beginning work. Business demands may require ASML to proceed with candidates who are immediately eligible to access controlled technology.
Inclusion and diversity
ASML is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values and respects the importance of a diverse and inclusive workforce. It is the policy of the company to recruit, hire, train and promote persons in all job titles without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity. We recognize that inclusion and diversity is a driving force in the success of our company.
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What is the Senior Electrical Engineer- PCBA Designer job at ASML?
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Median rent in San Diego is $2,313 a month and median household income $108,077 (ACS 2020–2024).
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