Senior ECAD Designer

Location: Livermore,California,United States

Augustine Consulting Inc. is a Woman-Owned Small Business professional services provider of engineering and technical services to the United States Government. We seek an experienced, self-starting Senior ECAD Designer. 

Position Description:

The senior designer will plan, coordinate, and perform complex assignments under minimal direction, including discussions with engineers on design parameters, intent, and project functions. The senior designer will use CAD applications to perform assigned tasks. In order to perform the activities and responsibilities of this position, the senior designer must have considerable experience in electrical, electromechanical or mechanical design practices, including considerable know-how in the application of engineering principles, equipment design, and manufacturing methods.

Responsibilities:

• Designing devices, components, apparatus, systems or equipment, multi-layer printed circuit boards, flex circuits and cables, systems or equipment layout of rigid, multilayer, flex, rigid-flex, analog, digital, radio frequency (RF), mixed-signal boards.
• Provide schematic capture and Bill of Material (BOM) generation.
• Establish design criteria for impedance control.
• Assuring conformance with established requirements which an item or system must meet in development and during manufacture.
• Planning for and incorporating requirements in proposals, specifications, and drawings.
• Must able to undertake assignments as a working group leader, coordinating and checking the efforts of supporting designers and detailers.
• Significant working knowledge of Algebra, Trigonometry, and Descriptive Geometry.
• Must be able to carry out his/her assignment independently, after consulting with or utilizing information obtained from various Sandia organizations.

A Senior ECAD Designer who fits our team is:

• Dynamic: contributes energy and enthusiasm to our daily tasks, to the team’s interactions, and to the Company’s mission.
• Thorough: possesses an unparalleled work ethic; produces complete, even polished products; persistent; mission-focused; asks “Why?” as often as necessary to get to the root of the matter.
• Mature: respects others’ opinions, beliefs, and culture; listens to ideas, shares thoughts, and works independently and together to contribute insights to the company’s leaders.
• Forthright: speaks with conviction; argues based on understanding, respectfully.
• Inquisitive: seeks deeper explanations of how systems work, not the surface-level description of the actors involved; goes beyond “stick-fetching” to connect the unconnected.
• Timely: shows up, ready to think, prepared to get on with the day’s assignments; contributes analytical insights that meet time-sensitive, reasonable requests.
• Honest: knows what’s right, what’s legal, what’s appropriate; acts accordingly.

Required Qualifications:

• Must be a US Citizen 
• Due to the sensitive nature of the work being performed, a candidate must possess or be able to obtain and maintain a DOE Q level clearance or a DOD SCI level clearance.
• Associate Degree (BS desired) in Drafting or Mechanical or Electrical Engineering Technology from a Community College or an accredited Technical Institute plus a minimum of 10 years of Design level experience. Specialized experience may be substituted for Technical Institute or Community College training on a two-for-one basis respectively, i.e., four (4) years of applicable experience is equivalent to a two (2) year Associate Degree.
• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Drafting or Mechanical or Electrical Engineering Technology plus 8 years of design level experience.
• 2-4 years’ experience with PTC Windchill PDMLink, Autodesk Inventor, Bentley Microstation, or Mentor Graphics DxDesigner for Expedition.
• Support of CAD based libraries.
• Assembly management/manufacturing and DFM techniques.
• Efficient use of the suite of Microsoft Office products.
• Able to work within the confines and restrictions of a classified environment including basic understanding of multi process environment for releasing CAD data encompassing classified, unclassified, weapon related and non-weapon related work.
• Ability to manage multiple customers/jobs at the same time.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ten years of designer level experience in defense and/or commercial aerospace CAD related work is preferred.
• Expertise and competencies appropriate to the required technical skills of the work product of the Design Org.
• Demonstrated ability to successfully manage and complete multiple prog