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Job overview
The PCB Layout Design Engineer will contribute to optical communication product development, creating PCB and package substrate layouts from concept through fabrication-ready outputs. The role works across engineering disciplines and with fabricators and substrate vendors to support manufacturable, high-density, high-speed designs. The position is hybrid in the Boston area and is a nine-month contract with likely extension.
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Full job description
Our client is seeking a PCB Layout Design Engineer to join their team. As a PCB Layout Design Engineer, you will be part of the Engineering organization supporting Optical communication product development. From day one, you’ll be expected to hit the ground running as an individual contributor—bringing strong, recent, hands-on PCB and package substrate layout experience to help drive high-density, high-speed designs from concept through fabrication-ready outputs. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical foundation, a proven track record delivering complex layouts under aggressive schedules, and the ability to collaborate effectively across electrical, mechanical, thermal, signal-integrity, power-integrity, and manufacturing teams.
Job Title: PCB Layout Design Engineer
Location: Boston (Hybrid)
Pay Range:
What's the Job?
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Contribute to, or lead, PCB and package substrate layout development for leading-edge optical communication products.
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Ensure layout compliance with IPC standards, company design practices, and fabrication capabilities.
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Collaborate with electrical, mechanical, thermal, signal-integrity, power-integrity, and manufacturing teams to deliver manufacturable designs.
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Work directly with PCB fabricators and substrate vendors to close DFM requirements and reduce risk to yield and reliability.
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Support successful delivery of high-volume, high-reliability communication products under aggressive timelines.
What's Needed?
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Bachelor’s degree or equivalent certifications with a minimum of 10+ years of relevant industry experience in PCB board and/or package substrate layout engineering.
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Expert-level proficiency with Cadence Allegro PCB design tools.
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Demonstrated working experience designing complex high-density, high-speed PCB and substrate layouts using advanced HDI, stacked micro-via, sequential lamination, and fine-pitch BGA technologies.
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Hands-on experience with complex multilayer high-density organic substrates, fine-pitch BGAs, and advanced component packages.
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Working understanding of transmission line layout geometries and rules (microstrip, stripline, CPW, etc.), plus demonstrated experience with compact low-voltage and high-current multiphase DC-DC power converter layout for state-of-the-art processors and GPUs.
What's in it for me?
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Opportunity to apply deep, hands-on PCB and package substrate layout expertise to optical communication products.
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Chance to collaborate cross-functionally with electrical, mechanical, thermal, signal-integrity, power-integrity, and manufacturing teams.
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Work on complex, high-density, high-speed designs where DFM and manufacturability directly impact outcomes.
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Hybrid work model in the Boston area for a 9-month contract with likely extension.
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Motivating environment focused on delivering high-volume, high-reliability communication products on aggressive schedules.
Upon completion of waiting period consultants are eligible for:
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Medical and Prescription Drug Plans
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Dental Plan
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Vision Plan
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Health Savings Account
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Health Flexible Spending Account
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Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
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Supplemental Life Insurance
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Short Term and Long Term Disability Insurance
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Business Travel Insurance
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401(k), Plus Match
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Weekly Pay
If this is a role that interests you and you'd like to learn more, click apply now and a recruiter will be in touch with you to discuss this great opportunity. We look forward to speaking with you!
About ManpowerGroup, Parent Company of: Manpower, Experis, Talent Solutions, and Jefferson Wells.
ManpowerGroup® (NYSE: MAN), the leading global workforce solutions company, helps organizations transform in a fast-changing world of work by sourcing, assessing, developing, and managing the talent that enables them to win. We develop innovative solutions for hundreds of thousands of organizations every year, providing them with skilled talent while finding meaningful, sustainable employment for millions of people across a wide range of industries and skills. Our expert family of brands – Manpower, Experis, Talent Solutions, and Jefferson Wells – creates substantial value for candidates and clients across more than 75 countries and territories and has done so for over 70 years. We are recognized consistently for our diversity - as a best place to work for Women, Inclusion, Equality and Disability and in 2023 ManpowerGroup was named one of the World's Most Ethical Companies for the 14th year - all confirming our position as the brand of choice for in-demand talent.
ManpowerGroup is committed to providing equal employment opportunities in a professional, high quality work environment. It is the policy of ManpowerGroup and all of its subsidiaries to recruit, train, promote, transfer, pay and take all employment actions without regard to an employee's race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, religion, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
How this job compares
Set against the 10,158 open Electrical Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Massachusetts median$105–165K/yr273 salary ranges
- Massachusetts median$63–69/hr22 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 354 open Electrical Engineer jobs in Massachusetts and 10,158 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Massachusetts
- RTX Corporation63 open
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience — more than three in four Electrical Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 8,509 postings).
- Education
- 6,537 of the 10,158 open Electrical Engineer jobs (64%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 11, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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