At Penguin Solutions (Nasdaq: PENG) – The AI Factory Platform Company – we’re building a team of innovators who thrive on collaboration, creativity, and the opportunity to help shape the future of AI. As part of the AI technology revolution, our teams design, build, deploy, and manage AI factories for enterprises, sovereign AI initiatives, and neocloud providers worldwide.

Headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, Penguin Solutions operates globally through a network of R&D, manufacturing, and sales locations. For nearly three decades, we have operated at the intersection of memory and AI/HPC infrastructure. That engineering expertise positions us to power the next generation of AI workloads, from training to inference and agentic AI at scale.

Penguin Solutions brings together differentiated infrastructure software, advanced memory, compute systems, end-to-end services, and industry-leading partner solutions in a full-stack AI factory platform designed to help customers deploy and scale AI workloads with speed and precision.

At Penguin Solutions, we value ideas over hierarchy and believe in servant leadership, where leaders enable teams to do their best work. We empower employees to take ownership, drive innovation, and grow through challenging work, continuous learning, and exposure to advanced AI tools and technologies. With flexibility where it matters and a strong focus on outcomes, Penguin Solutions is a place to do your best work, grow your career, and make a meaningful impact.

Job Overview

We are seeking a Senior PCB Design Engineer to support new product development and sustaining engineering for advanced memory and storage products. This role is responsible for delivering high-quality PCB designs for complex, high-speed design through advanced PCB layout, design optimization, and cross-functional collaboration. The engineer will work closely with Hardware, Mechanical, SI/PI, Manufacturing, and Project teams to ensure robust, manufacturable, and reliable product designs.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop advanced layout for complex, high-density, and high-speed multi-layer boards (including HDI, blind/buried vias, skip vias and microvias).
• Optimize component placement and routing for signal integrity (SI), power integrity (PI), thermal performance, and EMI/EMC control.
• Develop high quality designs for various board types, including rigid and rigid-flex configurations.
• Work closely with Hardware, Mechanical, SI/PI, manufacturing and Project teams to interpret requirements, resolve design issues, and implement layout changes.
• Work with PCB fabrication to ensure Design for Manufacturing (DFM) standards are met, optimizing stack-up and maximizing manufacturing yield.
• Prepare and maintain comprehensive documentation for release packages, including, detailed assembly and fabrication drawings and Gerber files.
• Perform PCB layout planning, design reviews, design verification and design change activities.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance PCB design methodologies, efficiency, design quality and best practices.

Requirements:

• Master's Degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Mechatronics.
• Minimum 5–8 years of experience in complex PCB design and layout.
• Experience with DDR4/DDR5, PCIe Gen4/Gen5/Gen6, SATA, USB, or similar high-speed interfaces is highly desirable.
• Experience designing high-speed PCBs for memory and storage products is highly preferred.
• Strong understanding of high-speed PCB design, impedance control, stack-up planning, signal integrity and power integrity considerations.
• Strong knowledge of PCB fabrication and assembly processes, IPC standards, and DFM/DFA principles.
• Proficient in Cadence Allegro/OrCAD, Allegro X software.
• Experience with PCB documentation, engineering change processes, and product release.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and teamwork skills.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across cross-functional teams.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced R&D environment.

Location:

• Penguin Solutions Penang, Malaysia. - Onsite