MKS Instruments, Inc.

Senior Systems Engineer

MKS Instruments, Inc. • $111K — $186K *
Technical Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in electrical or systems engineering or similar field with 5+ years of experience.
  • Ability to navigate tradeoffs between cost, performance, and timelines.
  • Experienced in full product development lifecycle with successful product releases.
  • Familiar with analog and digital design circuitry and testing methodologies.
  • Proficient in system integration and DVT plan execution.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills along with presentation abilities.
  • Skilled in Failure Analysis (FMEA).

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical planning, including scope, estimation, and milestone tracking.
  • Collaborate with Product Marketing to define market requirements and customer needs.
  • Create engineering design specifications and project scope documents.
  • Develop and execute system integration and verification plans.
  • Resolve technical issues through root cause analysis and corrective actions.
  • Coordinate with cross-functional teams across various engineering disciplines.
  • Manage project schedules and risk mitigation activities, ensuring timely and quality execution.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance (medical, dental, vision).
  • 401(k) plan with company match.
  • Life and disability insurance coverage.
  • 12 paid holidays and 15 days of paid vacation.
  • 6 weeks of fully paid parental leave and adoption assistance.
  • Tuition reimbursement for further education.
Full Job Description

A Day in Your Life at MKS:
As a Senior Systems Engineer, you will lead the development of the next generation of technologies that enable new market applications. You will provide technical leadership across a variety of disciplines including ozone, remote plasma sources, electronic control systems, electro-mechanical subsystems, signal acquisition, and data processing. 

You Will Make an Impact By:

Lead technical planning activities, including scope definition, effort estimation, milestone tracking, and status reporting.

Work closely with Product Marketing and applications team to scope market requirements and customer needs

Create system level engineering design specifications and project scope documents

Develop and execute system integration, verification, and Design Verification Test (DVT) plans.

Drive technical issue resolution, root cause investigations, and corrective action implementation.

Coordinate cross-functional teams including Electrical, Software, Mechanical, Manufacturing, Quality, and Compliance Engineering.

Manage technical project schedules, deliverables, resource planning, dependencies, and risk mitigation activities.

Ensure projects are executed on time while meeting performance, quality, regulatory, and cost objectives.

Prepare and present technical updates, program reviews, risk assessments, and executive-level communications to stakeholders.
• Travel Requirements: Up to 10 % of Travel is required.

The majority of the work will be in Wilmington but 20%+ of the work will be in Methuen.

Skills You Bring:

Bachelor’s degree in electrical or systems engineering or similar with 5+ years of experience

Ability to understand and manage tradeoffs between cost, performance, and schedules

Track record of successful new product releases, with experience in the entire product development process.

Experience with analog and digital design circuitry, proper test methodology, and systems integration.

Experience creating and executing system integration, integrating electromechanical systems, and Design Verification Test (DVT) plans.

Strong technical communication (verbal, written, presentation) skills

Skilled with Failure Analysis (FMEA)


We are interested in a qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. However, we will not be sponsoring work visas for this position.


Compensation and Benefits:
Salary Pay Range: $111,850.00 - 186,400.00 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.  At MKS, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for the role.

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

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 [and for participation in any stock programs, signing bonus, etc.]. 

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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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