Senior Manager – Electrical Engineering

MKS Instruments, Inc.; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 5,000,000 - 7,500,000; Full time

Job summary

MKS Instruments, Inc. in Bengaluru, India seeks a Senior Manager – Electrical Engineering to lead and scale the India Center—Engineering electrical org across product architecture, analog, digital, power electronics, embedded hardware, and PCB design.

The role drives platform strategy, standards, and lifecycle ownership, building a scalable team while coordinating with global groups on design, qualification, compliance, and sustainment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical, Electronics, Power Electronics, Embedded Hardware, or a related discipline.
• 15+ years of electrical/electronics engineering experience with leadership of hardware teams.
• Strong depth across analog, digital or mixed-signal design, power electronics, sensors and controls, embedded hardware, and PCB/PCBA development.
• Experience leading product lifecycle from architecture through qualification, compliance, NPI, manufacturing introduction, and sustaining.
• Experience driving standards, reuse, simulation, analytics, and AI-enabled tooling.

Responsibilities

• Lead electrical engineering across architecture, analog, digital, mixed-signal, power, embedded hardware, and PCB/PCBA development.
• Provide technical leadership from concept through design, qualification, industrialization, and lifecycle support.
• Establish standards for schematic/PCB development, signal integrity, EMC/EMI, reliability, and compliance.
• Drive platform strategy, design reuse, and obsolescence management; build scalable organization through hiring and mentoring.

Skills

Systems thinking

Global collaboration

Product lifecycle ownership

AI-enabled tooling

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Electrical/Electronics/Power Electronics/Embedded Hardware

Job description

Senior Manager – Electrical Engineering

A Day in Your Life at MKS The Senior Manager – Electrical Engineering will lead and scale the MKS India Center – Engineering electrical engineering organization across product architecture, analog, digital and power electronics, embedded hardware, PCB design, qualification, compliance, industrialization, and lifecycle engineering. Working with global teams across the complete product lifecycle, this leader will build technical depth, common standards, reusable platforms, and future leaders while advancing the center from execution support toward subsystem, platform, and selected product ownership.

You Will Make an Impact By Lead electrical and electronics engineering across architecture, analog, digital, mixed-signal, power, embedded hardware, sensors, controls, PCB design, qualification, and compliance. Provide technical leadership from product concept and architecture through design, verification, qualification, NPI, industrialization support, sustaining, and lifecycle support. Establish standards for schematic and PCB development, design reviews, signal and power integrity, EMC/EMI, reliability, safety, manufacturability, testability, and compliance. Drive platform strategy, design reuse, value engineering, alternate-component qualification, obsolescence management, and supply resilience. Build and develop a scalable organization through hiring, competency development, mentoring, career paths, succession planning, and leadership development. Partner with global engineering, product, manufacturing, quality, supply-chain, and compliance teams to align priorities, roadmaps, resources, standards, and accountability. Champion simulation, design automation, automated verification, analytics, and responsible use of approved AI tools to improve quality, productivity, reuse, and cycle time. Manage portfolio commitments, capacity, risks, budget inputs, and performance while fostering technical excellence, ownership, and collaboration.

Key Result Areas Delivery and Quality:

Schedule predictability, design quality, qualification, compliance, reliability, and manufacturing readiness.

Key Result Areas Architecture and Lifecycle Value:

Platform reuse, standardization, cost improvement, alternate-source readiness, and obsolescence-risk reduction.

Key Result Areas Productivity:

Design-cycle reduction and measurable gains from simulation, automation, analytics, and approved AI tools.

Key Result Areas Talent and Accountability:

Capability growth, leadership pipeline, retention, and progression to subsystem, platform, and product ownership.

Skills You Bring:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical, Electronics, Power Electronics, Embedded Hardware, or a related discipline.
• 15+ years of electrical or electronics engineering experience, including leadership of multidisciplinary hardware teams and managers.
• Strong technical depth across analog, digital or mixed-signal design, power electronics, sensors and controls, embedded hardware, and PCB/PCBA development.
• Experience leading the product lifecycle from architecture through qualification, compliance, NPI, manufacturing introduction, and sustaining.
• Demonstrated systems thinking, technical judgement, organization building, global collaboration, and product-minded decision-making.
• Experience improving engineering effectiveness through standards, reuse, simulation, automation, analytics, or AI-enabled tools.

Preferred Skills:

• Leadership experience in semiconductor equipment, power or RF systems, precision instrumentation, industrial automation, or other complex high-reliability products.
• Track record in hardware architecture, platform development, qualification, compliance, industrialization, and lifecycle competitiveness.
• Experience scaling an India-based global engineering team.

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: [e-mail] .

At MKS, it's all about courage, big ideas, and a serious passion for innovation.

Winning here is about exploring possibilities, taking action, and solving our customers’ toughest challenges. It's not just a job – it's what you make of it. While you shape your role and make it unique, we invest in you with on-the-job and formal training, as well as educational assistance. Curiosity is key at MKS - ask questions, own your path.

Our success comes from celebrating the unique skills, diverse perspectives, and lived experience of employees from over 100 countries. The goal is to make sure that everyone feels that they belong.

Diversity isn't just a nice-to-have; making sure everyone feels included is a big deal for us.

Our group of ~10,000 employees serves semiconductor manufacturing, electronics and packaging, and specialty industrial markets.

With over 3,800 patents, our products are enabling advancements in 5G, renewable energy & storage, artificial intelligence, cloud technology, and big data.

We're the behind-the-scenes support for some amazing technology. MKS Instruments enables technologies that transform our world.

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