Board Electrical Characterization Engineer

• The Senior PCBA Electrical Board Characterization Engineer leads electrical characterization, validation, and debug of complex PCBAs incorporating high speed interfaces such as PCIe and DDR memory.

• This role owns end-to-end end electrical sign off for boards, and acts as a technical authority for signal integrity, power integrity, and compliance readiness, working closely with design, layout, SI/PI, firmware, and system teams.
  

Key Responsibilities:

• Own electrical characterization strategy and execution for complex, multi-layer PCBAs with high-speed interfaces like PCIe, DDR
  Drive root cause analysis of high-speed failures, recommending design or layout corrective actions

• Lead PDN and power integrity characterization

• Evaluate power consumption and thermal interaction under functional and stress conditions

• Lead board bring up for first silicon and early prototype boards

• Debug complex electrical issues using advanced lab equipment

• Partner with firmware and system teams to resolve cross domain issues impacting electrical performance

• Lead pre compliance EMI/EMC electrical investigations, identifying root causes and mitigation strategies

• Support regulatory and electrical compliance readiness, ensuring designs meet margin and robustness targets
  

Required Skills & Experience:

• Deep hands-on experience in PCBA electrical characterization and validation

• Proven expertise in PCIe and DDR high speed interface validation

• Strong foundation in signal integrity and power integrity analysis

• Advanced debug skills using high speed lab instrumentation

• Ability to review and interpret schematics and PCB layouts using tools such as OrCAD, Allegro, Altium, Valor

• Experience defining test methodologies, automation approaches, and repeatable validation flows

• Bachelor's or master's degree in electrical engineering, Electronics, or related field

• Typically, 8-12 years of experience in PCBA validation, characterization, or high-speed hardware engineering
  

Optional skills:

• Lab environment experience and working with cross-functional teams
  
  

The pay range that the employer in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is $46.23/hour - $72.23/hour. Our benefits include medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.

Tundra Technical Solutions is among North America’s leading providers of Staffing and Consulting Services. Our success and our clients’ success are built on a foundation of service excellence. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Unincorporated LA County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: client provided property, including hardware (both of which may include data) entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all portable client computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon completion of the assignment, and; maintain the confidentiality of client proprietary, confidential, or non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected client information technology systems and related data security obligations.

Salary : $46 - $72