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Market evidence report — printed-circuit-board-designer
Source: 16 real job ads (JSearch API, countries: us 16), extracted into the MSSQL evidence store; as of 2026-07-18. This report contains extracted, aggregated facts only — no ad text is reproduced (copyright / platform terms).
Seniority distribution
| Seniority | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|
| mid | 9 | 56 % |
| senior | 6 | 38 % |
| junior | 1 | 6 % |
Tools — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | altium designer | 8 | 50 % |
| 2 | siemens xpedition | 5 | 31 % |
| 3 | Cadence Allegro | 4 | 25 % |
| 4 | cadence orcad pcb designer | 3 | 19 % |
| 5 | microsoft excel | 3 | 19 % |
Hard skills — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pcb design | 8 | 50 % |
| 2 | signal integrity analysis | 7 | 44 % |
| 3 | pcb layout | 6 | 38 % |
| 4 | power integrity analysis | 4 | 25 % |
| 5 | analog circuit design | 3 | 19 % |
| 6 | design rule implementation | 3 | 19 % |
| 7 | digital circuit design | 3 | 19 % |
| 8 | emi mitigation | 3 | 19 % |
| 9 | high-speed digital design | 3 | 19 % |
| 10 | pcb layout design | 3 | 19 % |
| 11 | rf circuit design | 3 | 19 % |
| 12 | schematic capture | 3 | 19 % |
| 13 | thermal management | 3 | 19 % |
Methods — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ipc standards | 3 | 19 % |
Responsibilities — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pcb layout and routing | 3 | 19 % |
| 2 | pcb layout development | 3 | 19 % |
| 3 | technical guidance | 3 | 19 % |
| 4 | vendor interface | 3 | 19 % |
Regional breakdown
Corpus note: 16 relevant ads in total — below the 100-ad target for a fully reliable ranking. Percentages above should be read as indicative.
US (us)
Insufficient evidence — 16 ads (minimum for a regional ranking: 30). No ranking is reported for this region.
UK (gb)
Insufficient evidence — 0 ads (minimum for a regional ranking: 30). No ranking is reported for this region.
EU/DACH (de, at, ch, nl)
Insufficient evidence — 0 ads (minimum for a regional ranking: 30). No ranking is reported for this region.
Job title variants in the market
| Title | Ads |
|---|---|
| Pcb Designer | 2 |
| EE Altium PCB Designer/Firmware | 1 |
| Lead High‑Speed PCB Designer for Tactical Electronics | 1 |
| Mission-Critical PCB Design Engineer Clearance Eligible | 1 |
| PCB Designer-Washington,District of Columbia | 1 |
| PCB Hardware Design Engineer, Senior | 1 |
| PCB Layout Designer, Intelligence Systems | 1 |
| PCB Layout Engineer | 1 |
| Principal Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Designer | 1 |
| Principal Printed Circuit Board Designer | 1 |
| Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Designer-Germantown,Maryland | 1 |
| Printed Circuit Board Designer | 1 |
| Senior PCB Designer | 1 |
| Senior PCB Designer for High-Speed & HDI | 1 |
| Senior Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Designer-Severn,Maryland | 1 |
Methodology: entities extracted per ad ({hard_skills, tools, methods, responsibilities, seniority}), normalized, counted as DISTINCT ads per entity; report threshold ≥ 3 ads. Headline sections in skills.md/tools.md use the stricter ≥ 20 % threshold.