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.