AI PCB Design Blog

How Engineering Intuition Is Built Through Repair

Collin Ruzvidzo and the Making of Engineering Intuition

Why New Routing Problems Keep Breaking Old Tools

Why the Best Signal Integrity Engineers Stop Thinking in Silos

Kalyan Vaddagiri on Mathematics, Multi-Physics, and the Future of Engineering Judgment

Hardware Team Alignment: Why Good Engineers Still Miss Each Other

Engineering Optimization in Real Hardware: Jacob Freking on Speed, Margin, and the Systems Mindset

Simulation Is Not Validation: How Overconfidence in Models Slows Hardware Teams Down

PCB Applications and Constraint Literacy: Why Automated PCB Layout Has to Learn Physics First

Constrained Optimization in PCB Design: Geometry, Reinforcement Learning, and the Future of EDA Automation

Multi Objective Optimization and AI PCB Layout: Why There Is No Optimal Board

Reward Functions in AI PCB Design

Technology Is Easy. People Are Hard. Pooya Tadayon.

Richard Whitney and How Quilter’s acting Head of Product thinks about complexity

No Magic, Just Structure: Katie Scholl on Logic, Responsibility, and Building Things That Matter

Stephanie Ngo and the Invisible Architecture of Momentum

Stelios Stavroulakis: Learning What Not to Do, and Building What Comes Next

Learning as a Discipline, Engineering as a Craft | Quilter’s Osman Romero

Finding the Possible in the Impossible: James Krejcarek on Toolmaking, Trust, and the Joy of Discovery

Stephen Newberry and the Discipline of Signal Integrity

FPGA to AI: Ben on Curiosity, Integrity, and Building Better Boards

Signals to Smarter Systems — Harshat on Math, AI Learning & Hardware Evolution

Aerospace to AI: Boris on Curiosity and Craft

From Silicon Valley to Startups: Dan Gudino on Curiosity and Circuitry

From Geometry to Circuits: Chi-Han Peng on Seeing the Patterns Beneath It All

Nanometers to New Dimensions: Fei on Rediscovering the Thrill of Zero to One

CAD Automation to Circuit Comprehension: Jarvis Autey on Learning What Machines Can’t Yet Know

From Rockets to Rapid Iteration: Sam on Purposeful Engineering

Staying Under Dunbar’s Number: Nick Faughey on Infrastructure, Agility, and the Joy of Building

From Research to Routing: Fayaz Rahman on Learning Fast and Building Smarter Systems

MLOps Engineers | Open Source Roots, Hardware Frontiers, and Fariz Rahman

Beyond Parity: Geometry in AI and Superhuman Engineering

Lessons on Power Integrity from Scott Witcher

Curiosity in Power Electronics: Reflections with Jovana Plavšić

From GaN to Magnetics: How Jovana Plavšić Builds Hardware with Curiosity and Precision

Scott Witcher on Power Integrity, Systems Thinking, and Humble Leadership

Technical Leadership Skills and Meditations: What It Means to Truly Build with Derrek Cooper

Lasers, Electrons, and the Courage to Build the Impossible

Aircraft Systems Engineering Beyond the Review: Human Chemistry, and the Quiet Craft of Good Engineering

What is a Technical Leader? Derrek Cooper's Answer

Björn Manuel Hegelich on Dangerous Lasers, the Art of Letting Go, and Building the Next Collider by Hand

Carol Erikson on Systems Thinking, Technical Leadership, and Building Teams That Actually Work

The Hidden Hero of Hardware: Test Engineering and Paul McDonald

Design for Reliability, Design for Manufacturability: Building Smarter Test Systems

Design with Your Hands, Lead with Your Eyes — Nancy Smith and the Grounded Future of PCB Design

On T-Shaped Engineers and Hardware Development: Transparency and the Generalist Path

The Joy is the Job: Nancy Smith on Crafting Beautiful Hardware, One PCB at a Time

Transparency, T-Shaped Engineers, and FPGAs: Interview with Jami Friedman

Just Ship It: Lessons in Grit, Test, and Team from Paul Robinson's Hardware Odyssey

What Hardware Teaches You About Leadership and Letting Go with Paul Robinson

Bet Big, Break Rules — A Fireside with Sergiy Nesterenko

Rethinking Hardware: Agile Lessons from Dr. Lucas Fraile

Engineering Is an Art: Hardware Interview with Carolina Hubbard

The Truth About Engineering: We're All Just Trying Not to Redesign the Whole Thing Again

Design for Quality: Dr. Lucas Fraile's Insights