Layout Designer Job Description
Layout Designer Duties & Responsibilities
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Layout Designer Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Layout Designer
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Education for Layout Designer
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Employers hiring for the layout designer job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Associate and Bachelor's Degree in Design, Drafting, Engineering, Associates, Electrical Engineering, Technical, Education, Mechanical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Electronics
Skills for Layout Designer
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Layout Designer Examples
Layout Designer Job Description
- Work in collaboration with level artists to ensure playability of levels and graphic fidelity
- Contribute to playtests and design discussions and critiques
- Understand, use and help improve the game editor
- Test and troubleshoot areas that are not working in the game engine and proactively fix them
- Work with Usability Lab to produce A/B tests and other pertinent usability studies
- Excellent understanding of memory layout and hierarchy
- Develop and Maintain Technical Knowledge
- Design and modify the distribution of the electronic components and their interconnections on the PCB using CAD, accomplish all the rules of the established design, electromagnetic compatibility and easiness of manufacture and product testing
- Generate output files (gerbers, assembly drawings, schematics, BOMs, etc) necessary for manufacturing and PCB assembly processes
- Participate in department initiatives and support process and change management activities
- At least HND degree in an engineering discipline, Bachelor/Masters would be a plus
- Proficient in layout finishing at chip level, resolve mask density and antenna issues
- Must be available to work extended hours and weekends as needed
- Must have a good understanding of stubs, reflections, crosstalk, & ground bounce (or switching noise)
- Experience designing low noise, low power resistors, capacitors, pad IOs, ESD structures, datapaths, memory structures
- 10+ years experience in custom RF/analog layout with extensive knowledge on deep subK micron CMOS (40nm, 28nm)
Layout Designer Job Description
- Develop new strategies on layout design trends
- Capture and modify schematics according to requirements (of HW, Manufacture, SW, SAP, etc)
- Provide guidance / technical mentoring to the project team and other technical professions
- Modify and design product PCBs according to the requirements, starting from feasibility analysis until serial production
- Create, modify, consult and/or manipulate libraries (symbols, geometry, maps, catalog, etc) of new components that are not available on the official library
- Accomplish the CMMI requirements corresponding to PCB design area
- Participate on PCB reviews with HW, EMC and Mechanical Design responsible
- Create estimates of the space needed (PCB size) to quote new products
- Provide technical support to purchasing organization during PCB supplier engagement
- Collaborate with Design and PLM teams on category look and feel
- Keen understanding of the environmental aesthetics
- Understanding of function vs
- Must work well in a team spanning artists, programmers, and designers
- All of our team members will have to be able to shift quickly and flexibly, and assume new roles and responsibilities as we grow and change
- Minimum 5 years experience in layout or equivalent related education and experience
- Basic understanding or course work on manufacturing processes
Layout Designer Job Description
- Analyzes design options, confers with necessary staff to resolve details not completely defined
- Establishes a reasonable project development schedule from concept to production implementation in line with overall business requirements
- Determines ideal electrical component placement and manufacturing route to ensure overall design, performance, and cost conformance
- Determines nature and type of electronic models, detail drawings, and analysis required to support the above and supervises their release through the release cycle
- Participates in design reviews on projects to ensure adequate input and involvement from all interested groups
- Maintain Safeway footage minimum and maximum space requirements for frozen/refrigerated space, and set guidelines for Corporate Construction/Design
- Review, verify and analyze information (message, technical specs, ) in SMS and apply to design
- Conceptualize, brainstorm and create new design campaigns
- Supervision, mentoring and training of more junior and contract layout designers
- Custom layout and verification of complex memory cells
- In depth knowledge of the layout requirements for material handling technologies such as conveyor systems, automated storage and retrieval systems (crane and shuttle based systems), robotics, automated guided vehicles, mobile robots
- High school diploma, GED, or equivalent with a minimum 32 credits toward the completion of an Associate's degree including CAD classes
- Training or work experience in NX automotive design
- Basic understanding of vehicles and the vehicle assembly process
- Associate degree in Automotive Design
- Good understanding of NX, TeamCenter
Layout Designer Job Description
- Expert physical design verification (DRC/LVS/DFM) resource for all types of circuit and test layouts using Calibre verification tools
- Plans, organizes, and coordinates own work communicates technical status through regular updates
- Perform catalog page layouts as directed by Sr
- The CAD Designer will be responsible for going through existing equipment and verifying all dimensions in the existing layout and modify layout as needed
- Accounting for electrical panels in the layout
- Determining existing equipment foot pad locations
- Optimizing layout for each cell
- Incorporating automation requirements into the layout as the automation design progresses
- Providing platform layout and basic designs for each of the cells (customized platforms on a per cell basis)
- Providing drawings and details to the manager to feed to the builder with information
- Experience using scripting languages and level design tools
- Comfort and capability in creative and technical design discussions
- Minimum of 5 years practical technical experience or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Background in Engineering is a plus, but not required
- Cadence Allegro v16.x experience a must
- Ability to multitask several designs at once
Layout Designer Job Description
- 15%) Leads and executes technical writing projects by leading meetings with team project members, producing sketches, drawings, animations and other illustrative material according to guidelines, instructions, and specific parameters developed by meeting with project team members and customers
- 15%) Exercises independent judgment and discretion in leading and executing technical writing projects
- 15%) Writes technical documents (such as instruction sheets, user manuals, installation templates) in easy to understand language and procedures
- 15%) Manages and leads multiple projects at a time to meet project schedules and priorities
- 10%) Works with sourcing and outside resources to coordinate and manage all project activities
- 5%) Determines composition, view angles, perspective, projections, etc by understanding product specifications and incorporates customer feedback into the materials
- 5%) Utilizes and applies a variety of graphic techniques including line illustrations, isometrics, perspectives, orthographic, block diagrams, renderings, graphs, schematics and the like
- 5%) Plans complete layouts for finished graphics
- 5%) Supports product Industrial Design work for new and existing products as required
- Use Cadence Virtuoso and Cadence Virtuoso XL software
- Associates degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering
- Infrequent travel (510%) supporting internal, supplier and customer activities
- Working knowledge in Windchill PDMLink
- Design guidelines for electromagnetic compatibility and critical signal management
- Knowledge of the technical constraints associated with plant layout / plant design
- Knows how to deal with design and layout constraints