Engineering Manager – Firmware Engineering

A Day in Your Life at MKS 

The Engineering Manager – Firmware Engineering will lead a team delivering firmware across sustaining engineering, product enhancements, production support, qualification, and new product development. 

This hands-on leader will own technical execution, delivery, quality, and team development for an assigned portfolio while increasing team accountability from individual tasks toward complete deliverables and workstreams. 

You Will Make an Impact By 

• Lead firmware execution across sustaining, enhancements, qualification, production support, and product development. 
• Provide hands-on technical leadership in embedded firmware, real-time systems, controls, communications, and diagnostics. 
• Own team priorities, resources, commitments, risks, and delivery. 
• Drive architecture, design and code reviews, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and technical decisions. 
• Strengthen requirements, code quality, verification, configuration, release, and defect-prevention practices. 
• Expand CI/CD, test automation, regression automation, and approved AI-assisted development. 
• Partner with global teams on execution, qualification, production issues, and product delivery. 
• Coach engineers, develop technical leads, and build capability, ownership, and succession. 
  
  

• Key Result Areas 
• Delivery: On-time delivery, commitment reliability, backlog health, and responsiveness. 
• Quality: Defect leakage, repeat defects, verification effectiveness, and corrective-action closure. 
• Productivity and Automation: Development cycle time, automated test coverage, CI/CD maturity, and measurable benefits from automation and approved AI tools. 
• Talent and Ownership: Skill growth, time to productivity, retention, technical-lead development, and progression toward deliverable and workstream ownership. 

Skills You Bring: 

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electronics, Electrical, Computer Engineering, Embedded Systems, Computer Science, or a related discipline. 
• 10+ years of firmware or embedded-systems experience, including 3+ years of engineering leadership. 
• Strong technical depth in embedded C/C++, real-time systems, processors, communications, diagnostics, and embedded architecture. 
• Experience delivering firmware through design, integration, verification, release, sustaining, and production support. 
• Hands-on experience with design and code reviews, debugging, root-cause analysis, and technical problem solving. 
• Experience with automated testing, CI/CD, configuration management, and modern firmware-development practices. 
• Strong execution, people leadership, global collaboration, and stakeholder-management skills. 
  
  

Preferred Skills: 

• Experience in semiconductor equipment, instrumentation, controls, power systems, industrial automation, or similar complex products. 
• Experience with RTOS-based systems, embedded Linux, industrial communications, high-reliability products, or hardware-in-the-loop testing.
• Experience using automation and AI-assisted engineering tools to improve development productivity and quality.

Globally, our policy is to recruit individuals from wide and diverse backgrounds. However, certain positions require access to controlled goods and technologies subject to various export control regulations.  Applicants for these positions may be limited (by, for example, their countries of citizenship, country of origin, or immigration status) where required by law or governmental contact, and/or employment made contingent upon the issuance of appropriate governmental licensing.

MKS Inc. and its affiliates and subsidiaries (“MKS”) is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer: diverse candidates are encouraged to apply. We win as a team and are committed to recruiting and hiring qualified applicants regardless of race, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions), religion, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability or handicap, marital status, membership in the uniformed services, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, or any other category protected by applicable law. Hiring decisions are based on merit, qualifications and business needs. We conduct background checks and drug screens, in accordance with applicable law and company policies.  MKS is generally only hiring candidates who reside in states where we are registered to do business.

MKS is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process due to a disability, please contact us at: accommodationsatMKS@mksinst.com .

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