Board Design Engineer

Location: Lenexa, KS (Onsite). Relocation assistance may be available.

About the role

As a Board Designer, you'll design and develop advanced embedded hardware that powers next-generation avionics and autonomous aerospace systems. You'll play a key role in delivering complex electronic designs from concept through production and are expected to work independently with minimal technical training or mentorship.

Strong hands-on Altium Designer experience is required, including component library management, schematic capture, and PCB layout.

GuideTech is a subsidiary of Palladyne AI (NASDAQ: PDYN), a U.S.-based defense and industrial technology company that delivers embodied AI-powered collaborative autonomy solutions, advanced avionics, precision-manufactured components, UAVs, and advanced aerospace design services.

At GuideTech, you'll contribute to technologies that support a diverse range of aerospace and defense platforms, including unmanned aircraft, launch vehicles, spacecraft, missiles, and other autonomous systems.

What You'll Do

• Design and develop complex multilayer PCBAs/CCAs for advanced UAV, aerospace, and AI platforms.
• Use Altium Designer to manage component libraries, create schematics, perform PCB placement/routing, define layer stacks and design rules, and prepare designs for release.
• Independently lead board designs from concept through production.
• Design embedded hardware systems with a focus on performance, reliability, manufacturability, and testability high-speed, mixed-signal, power, and embedded hardware systems.
• Work with FPGA-based systems, including hardware integration, timing constraints, debugging, and system validation Zynq/Vivado-based hardware integration, debugging, and validation.
• Collaborate closely with hardware, FPGA, embedded software, mechanical, systems, and manufacturing engineers.
• Support production test methodologies and functional testing.
• Perform failure analysis, root-cause investigations, and yield improvement activities.
• Manage engineering change notices (ECNs), product revisions, and hardware lifecycle documentation.
• Support the transition from prototype to production, including fabrication and assembly documentation, impedance requirements, BOMs, and production test planning.
• Apply Design for Manufacturability (DFM) and Design for Test (DFT) best practices throughout development.
• Support board bring-up, debugging, and signal analysis using lab instrume