MKS Instruments, Inc.

Senior Electronics Engineer

MKS Instruments, Inc.$120K — $135K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years of related experience in Electronic Engineering
  • Strong foundation in electronic circuit design
  • Experience with PCB development processes including DfM, DfR, and DfT
  • Hands-on experience with board bring-up and debugging tools
  • Experience developing firmware in C/C++ for microcontrollers
  • Proficient in using Python or similar scripting languages for automation

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop electronic parts and components for hardware systems
  • Determine design approaches and establish parameters
  • Analyze equipment to conduct tests and evaluate results
  • Select components based on specifications and reliability analysis
  • Support manufacturing activities and review vendor capabilities for product development
  • Engage in customer-facing technical discussions to meet requirements
  • Drive continuous improvement initiatives across products and processes

Benefits

  • Health insurance (medical, dental, vision)
  • 401(k) with company match
  • Life and disability insurance
  • 12 paid holidays and 15 paid vacation days
  • 6 weeks fully paid parental leave
  • Adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement
Full Job Description
A Day in Your Life at MKS:
As a Senior Electronics Engineer at MKS, you will work with multidisciplinary engineering teams to design, develop, test, and support electronic systems and subsystems throughout the product lifecycle.

Your day will involve creating schematics, performing board bring-up and validation, developing embedded firmware, troubleshooting complex technical issues, supporting manufacturing activities, collaborating with global engineering teams, and participating in customer-facing technical discussions.

You will help deliver reliable, high-quality products while contributing to process improvements and helping expand the team's technical capabilities.

Principal Responsibilities:
• Designs, develops, modifies and evaluates electronic parts, components or integrated circuitry for electronic equipment, or other hardware systems and/or electrical engineering applications
• Determines design approaches and parameters
• Analyzes equipment to establish operating data, conducts experimental tests and evaluates results
• Selects components and equipment based on analysis of specifications and reliability
• May also review vendor capability to support product development

You Will Make an Impact By:
  • Designing, developing, and supporting electronic hardware solutions for new and existing products from concept through production and sustaining engineering.
  • Developing and maintaining embedded firmware for microcontroller-based products to support product functionality, enhancements, and issue resolution.
  • Driving hardware verification, board bring-up, troubleshooting, and root-cause investigations to improve product performance and reliability.
  • Working collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary engineering environment to deliver robust, high-quality products.
  • Taking ownership of technical challenges and contributing to continuous improvement initiatives across products and processes.
  • Representing the engineering team in customer-facing meetings and collaborating with global teams to address technical challenges and customer requirements.
  • Ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 15% of the time, including occasional extended trips to support customer meetings, technical workshops, product reviews, and issue-resolution activities.


Skills You Bring:
  • Strong foundation in electronic circuit design, including schematic capture, component selection, and debugging of digital and mixed-signal circuits.
  • Experience with PCB development and familiarity with PCB fabrication, assembly, and test processes, including Design for Manufacturability (DfM), Design for Reliability (DfR), and Design for Testability (DfT).
  • Experience developing embedded firmware for microcontroller-based systems using C/C++.
  • Hands-on experience with board bring-up, hardware validation, and laboratory debug tools such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and related instrumentation.
  • Experience using Python or other scripting languages for engineering automation, data analysis, test development, or productivity improvements.
  • Strong communication, documentation, collaboration, and problem-solving skills with the ability to work effectively across engineering disciplines and customer-facing environments.
  • Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies, adapt to changing technical requirements, and contribute across multiple engineering disciplines.
  • Minimum of 5 years of relevant electronics engineering experience with a Bachelor's Degree or 3 years of relevant electronics engineering experience with a Master's Degree.


Required Skills:
  • Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years of related experience in Electronic Engineering


Preferred Skills:
  • Experience with PCB design tools such as Altium Designer.
  • Experience with ARM, STM32, PIC, AVR, MSP430, or similar microcontroller platforms.
  • Familiarity with common communication interfaces such as SPI, I2C, UART, USB, and Ethernet.
  • Experience with automated test systems, engineering software tools, or laboratory data analysis.
  • Familiarity with AI-assisted engineering tools and modern software development workflows.
  • Exposure to FPGA technologies is beneficial but not required.


Compensation and Benefits:

Salary Pay Range: $120,000 - $135,000 USD per year. This range is a good faith estimate of the expected salary range for this position, based on a wide range of factors including qualifications, experience and training, operational and business needs and other considerations permitted by law.

Bonus: This position is eligible for a discretionary annual bonus, in an amount to be determined by MKS.

Benefits: MKS offers a comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance coverage (medical, dental and vision), 401(k) with company match, life and disability insurance, 12 paid holidays, sick time, 15 paid vacation days, [6 weeks fully paid] parental leave, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement.

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About MKS Instruments, Inc.

MKS Instruments, Inc. is a global provider of instruments, subsystems and process control solutions that measure, monitor, deliver, analyze, power and control critical parameters of advanced manufacturing processes to improve process performance and productivity for our customers. Our products are derived from our core competencies in pressure measurement and control, flow measurement and control, gas and vapor delivery, gas composition analysis, residual gas analysis, leak detection, control technology, ozone generation and delivery, RF & DC power, reactive gas generation, vacuum technology, photonics, sub-micron positioning, vibration isolation and optics. Our primary served markets include semiconductor capital equipment, general industrial, life and health sciences, research and defense.
Learn more about MKS Instruments, Inc.
Size
6,000 employees
Market Cap
$5.5 billion
Industry
Net Income
$350.1 million
5 Year Trend
+17.9%
Revenue
$2.3 billion
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