A Day in Your Life at MKS
The Senior Manager – Firmware Engineering will lead and scale the firmware organization within the MKS India Center, supporting Vacuum Solutions Division products across sustaining engineering, production support, validation, product development, qualification, and NPI.
The role will build a globally integrated team that progresses from task execution to ownership of firmware deliverables, workstreams, platforms, subsystems, and selected product outcomes. The leader will provide technical and people leadership across the embedded domain while driving modern engineering practices, AI-assisted development, CI/CD, test automation, quality and productivity.
You Will Make an Impact By
•Leading firmware sustainment, enhancements, defect resolution, production support, qualification, redesign, NPI, and future product-development programs.
•Providing technical oversight of embedded firmware, real-time controls, instrumentation, communications, diagnostics, device software, and firmware architecture.
•Building and scaling the organization through workforce planning, hiring, onboarding, competency development, mentoring, career paths, succession planning, and development of future technical and people leaders.
•Partnering with global engineering and product teams to align priorities, roadmaps, resources, standards, and accountability; participating in architecture, requirements, design, code, and technical reviews.
•Establishing disciplined firmware lifecycle practices covering requirements traceability, coding standards, design and code reviews, configuration and release management, verification, static analysis, cybersecurity, and defect prevention.
•Driving responsible adoption of AI-assisted development, CI/CD, automated testing, DevOps, reusable firmware platforms, and engineering metrics to improve quality, throughput, and cycle time.
•Partnering with Systems Engineering, Software QA, Validation, Reliability, Compliance, and Performance Analysis on product verification, qualification, reliability, field issues, and root-cause investigations.
•Managing portfolio priorities, capacity, budget inputs, delivery, risks, and engineering metrics, with clear visibility of commitments, skills, workload, and hiring needs.
•Creating a culture of ownership, collaboration, reuse, automation, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence.
Key Result Areas
•Delivery: On-time delivery, schedule predictability, backlog health, and responsiveness.
•Quality: Defect density and leakage, repeat defects, field issues, and corrective-action effectiveness.
•Productivity and Automation: Development cycle time, automated test coverage, CI/CD maturity, firmware reuse, and measurable benefits from approved AI and automation tools.
•Talent: Hiring, time to productivity, skill coverage, retention, internal development, and succession readiness.
Skills You Bring
•Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electronics, Electrical, Computer Engineering, Embedded Systems, or a related discipline.
•15+ years of firmware or embedded-systems experience, including 8+ years leading engineering teams and managers.
•Strong technical depth in embedded C/C++, real-time systems, processors, device interfaces, communications, diagnostics, and firmware architecture.
•Experience leading the firmware lifecycle from requirements and design through integration, verification, release, sustaining, and field support.
•Demonstrated success scaling teams, developing leaders, and establishing engineering processes and governance.
•Practical experience with CI/CD, automated testing, DevOps, reusable platforms, and measurable engineering-productivity improvement.
•Ability to deploy AI-assisted engineering tools responsibly while protecting quality, security, intellectual property, traceability, and human review.
•Strong global collaboration, program execution, resource planning, risk management, stakeholder management, and ownership mindset.
Preferred Skills
•Leadership experience in semiconductor equipment, power electronics, RF, industrial automation, instrumentation, or other complex capital equipment.
•Experience with high-reliability products, product qualification, regulatory compliance, hardware-in-the-loop testing, simulation, or product cybersecurity.
•Experience building or scaling an India-based global engineering capability.
Certain positions require access to controlled goods and technologies subject to export control regulations; applicants may be limited by citizenship, country of origin, or immigration status where required by law, and employment may be contingent upon appropriate governmental licensing.
