Layout Engineer

Job description

To pursue our ambitious vision, we are looking for a Layout Engineer. In this role, you will turn power electronics designs into flight-ready PCBs — owning the layout from component placement to fabrication outputs.

Your mission will be to:

• Design power PCBs: high-current layout, heavy copper, busbars, creepage/clearance, and EMC-driven layout practices.
• Lay out mixed-signal boards: gate drive circuits, analog sensing chains, and MCU/digital sections with clean grounding and partitioning.
• Own the layout flow: library and footprint management, stackup definition, design rules, and fabrication outputs (Gerbers, drawings, assembly data).
• Work with PCB manufacturers and assemblers: DFM/DFA reviews, and support during fabrication and assembly.
• Support prototype bring-up and EMC testing, feeding lessons learned back into layout practices.

Profile required

• Professional engineering education (MSc or equivalent) in electrical engineering or equivalent experience, with 5+ years of hands-on PCB layout experience across power and mixed-signal boards.
• Proficiency in KiCad, or solid experience with Altium/other tools and a willingness to learn.
• Understanding of power electronics layout constraints: switching loops, parasitics, thermal management, creepage/clearance.
• Knowledge of EMC-driven layout: grounding strategies, return paths, filter placement, shielding.
• Knowledge with PCB fabrication and assembly processes: stackups, heavy copper, via technologies.
• Strong analytical skills, a proactive attitude, excellent interpersonal skills and unbounded curiosity.
• You enjoy owning your scope end-to-end.
• Professional level English — further languages welcome.

Nice to have:

• Experience in space, aerospace, energy sector, downhole equipment, oceanographic, or other high-reliability industries.
• Experience with high-voltage or high-current board design.
• Familiarity with thermal simulation or signal/power integrity analysis.
• Schematic capture experience and good circuit-level understanding.

Company description

Gama is a NewSpace startup based in Ivry-sur-Seine, near Paris. We are developing a next-generation power system for commercial LEO satellites — from solar array power conversion to battery energy storage. We design, build, and test our hardware in-house, and we move fast: our engineers see their designs go from schematic to flight hardware.

We are a small team where ownership matters: you own your subsystem end-to-end, from first calculations to test results. We work hands-on, we help each other without ego, and we treat mistakes as data — finding out why something failed is how we get better.

We offer:

• Your work will fly. Contribute directly to the future of space exploration and Sustainable Space.
• Access to cutting-edge facilities and development opportunities in the heart of the European space industry.
• A steep personal development path, working alongside world class aerospace engineers.
• Equity package and competitive compensation.
• A highly talented, dynamic and international team.