PCB CAD Designer - SC Cleared - £440 a Day - Outside IR35 Rate: £440 a day Outside IR35 Duration: Initially 6 months Location: Southampton Clearance: SC Clearance required for this role You will join a world leading defence technology consultancy and be responsible for PCB CAD design: PCB layout, component placement, routing for RF and high-speed digital board using Altium in accordance with internal PCB CAD design guidelines. Your skills: More than 5-year experience in PCB CAD design, using Altium SW suite, for: electronic schematic capture components library (definition, design component and footprint) mixed technology (e.g., SMT, PTH) routing design for manufacturing design for testability RF and high-speed digital boards (e.g, mmWave boards) multi-layers PCB design through holes and blind vias support the design engineer in the selection of specific PCB material (substrates, copper, …) design and verify balanced high-speed trace (impedance, capacitance, spacing) design and verify power trace (current limits, capacity, spacing) design and verify balanced copper distribution and weight to prevent bow and twist components placement definition of the layup preparation of manufacturing data deep knowledge of IPC-A-600, IPC-6012, IPC-A-610, up to class 3, IPC-2221 standards and guidelines