Skill
PCB Design
Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Civil and Environmental)
PCB (printed circuit board) design is the process of laying out the physical and electrical structure of a circuit board, including component placement, trace routing, and layer stack-up, typically using CAD tools like Altium Designer, KiCad, or Eagle. It's a core skill for electrical and hardware engineers building anything from consumer electronics to industrial devices. Good PCB design balances electrical performance, manufacturability, and cost.
PCB Design in the job market
Last checked October 28, 2026
- Open roles
- 60
- Employers
- 26
- Median pay
- $161,000
- Disclose pay
- 70%
on Career App
hiring for it
from 42 roles
of these roles
Open roles requiring PCB Design (60)
Tech Dir Validation Engineering
Rambus
Full-time · San Jose, CA · $189,000 – $351,000
Rambus is looking for a seasoned validation engineer to lead lab testing and characterization of high-speed memory interface semiconductor products. The role combines hands-on bench work, test automation scripting, and collaboration with design teams to ensure silicon meets performance and specification requirements.
Listed on Rambus’s careers site · Apply there ↗
Avionics Manufacturing Engineer (PCB and PCBA)
Impulse Space
Redondo Beach
This role involves applying expertise in printed circuit board design and assembly to ensure the reliability of spacecraft electronics. You'll work on PCB and PCBA technology that directly supports Impulse's spaceflight vehicles, with advancement tied to your experience level.
Listed on Impulse Space’s careers site · Apply there ↗
Electrical Hardware Engineer III - Avionics
Voyager
Full-time · Pittsburgh, PA
This role designs and tests electrical hardware and avionics systems for spacecraft at an aerospace company. It suits engineers with PCB design and embedded systems experience who want to work on mission-critical space technology.
Listed on Voyager’s careers site · Apply there ↗
Electrical Engineer
LeoLabs
Full-time · Menlo Park, CA · $120,000 – $139,000
LeoLabs is hiring an Electrical Engineer to design and validate board-level electronics for their radar systems that track objects in low Earth orbit. This hands-on role suits someone with several years of PCB design and hardware bring-up experience who enjoys laboratory work and collaborating across teams to move hardware from development into production.
Listed on LeoLabs’s careers site · Apply there ↗
Principal PCB Design Engineer
Terran Orbital
Full-time · Irvine, CA · $170,000 – $210,000
This role leads PCB design efforts for satellite and aerospace electronics at a fast-growing manufacturer, mentoring junior designers and setting technical standards across the team. It suits experienced engineers who have shipped complex, high-reliability boards and want to shape both current products and the organization's long-term direction.
Listed on Terran Orbital’s careers site · Apply there ↗
Senior Manager, Digital & Mixed-Signal Hardware
CesiumAstro
Full-time · Austin, TX
CesiumAstro seeks an experienced engineering leader to manage digital and mixed-signal hardware teams across satellite communication systems and space platforms, balancing technical depth with people leadership. The role combines hands-on design work on high-speed electronics with team building and process improvement in a fast-growing aerospace startup.
Listed on CesiumAstro’s careers site · Apply there ↗
Senior Staff Engineer, PCB Design (R5752)
Shield AI
Full-time · Seattle, WA · $180,000 – $270,000
Design printed circuit board layouts for defense aerospace systems, working with electrical and mechanical teams to turn schematics into manufacturable designs. This role suits engineers with PCB design experience who can manage the full design workflow from stack-up through manufacturing documentation.
Listed on Shield AI’s careers site · Apply there ↗
Senior Flex DFM Engineer
Oura
Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $172,550 – $222,000
A manufacturing engineering role focused on optimizing flexible PCB design and production at supplier facilities for a health-tracking hardware company. Suits experienced PCB engineers who can bridge design and manufacturing constraints while managing vendor quality and scaling from prototype to production.
Listed on Oura’s careers site · Apply there ↗
Hardware Systems Test Engineer
Eight Sleep
Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $90,000 – $120,000
Eight Sleep is hiring a Hardware Systems Test Engineer to design and execute comprehensive testing protocols for their sleep fitness hardware products, from prototyping through manufacturing validation. This role suits someone with deep hands-on experience bringing integrated electromechanical systems to market, comfortable debugging at the component level and traveling to manufacturing partners in Asia.
Listed on Eight Sleep’s careers site · Apply there ↗
Staff Avionics Hardware Engineer
Relativity Space
Long Beach, CA · $175,000 – $263,000
This role leads the design and development of spacecraft avionics systems for deep-space missions at a commercial aerospace company building reusable rockets. It suits experienced aerospace hardware engineers who can independently take complex electronic systems from concept through flight qualification.
Listed on Relativity Space’s careers site · Apply there ↗
Asked for alongside PCB Design
Measured from the 60 open roles that name PCB Design — not from a curated list.
- Python20 roles33.3%
- Altium Designer16 roles26.7%
- FPGA7 roles11.7%
- MATLAB7 roles11.7%
- Power Electronics7 roles11.7%
- Automotive Ethernet5 roles8.3%
- Embedded Systems5 roles8.3%
- LTspice5 roles8.3%
What employers state they pay
Median
$161,000
Middle half
$133,000 – $206,000
From 42 of 60 open roles — the 70% that publish a range, annualized to USD. Only some employers state pay, and the ones that do skew to California and New York, where the law requires it.
Who employers are hiring
- Entry12%
- Mid18%
- Senior51%
- Lead / Staff / Principal16%
- Management4%
From 57 roles whose posting states a level.
Where PCB Design roles are
Among the 54 of 60 open roles we could place on a map.
Roles that use PCB Design
Employers hiring for PCB Design
26 in total, most open roles first.
- SAShield AI7 roles
- NVIDIA5 roles
- AeroVironment4 roles
- BBoeing4 roles
- CCesiumAstro4 roles
- RSRelativity Space4 roles
Related skills
Curated neighbors in the taxonomy, whether or not employers ask for them together.