Senior Manager – Mechanical Engineering

MKS Instruments, Inc.; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,800,000; Full time

Job summary

MKS Instruments, Inc. in Bengaluru leads the India Center – Engineering mechanical organization across product architecture, mechanical design, vacuum and flow systems, CAD, analysis, prototyping, qualification, industrialization, and lifecycle engineering.

The Senior Manager will scale the team and build reusable platforms while aligning with global roadmaps. This role emphasizes rapid prototyping, design discipline, and lifecycle cost improvements through mentoring and cross-functional

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Mechanical, Mechatronics or related discipline.
• 15+ years of mechanical engineering experience with leadership of multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong depth in product architecture, mechanical design, CAD, GD&T, tolerances, materials and manufacturing processes.
• Experience leading the product lifecycle from architecture and prototype to validation, qualification, NPI, industrialization, and sustaining.
• Experience with rapid prototyping, precision machining or fabrication, supplier collaboration, reliability and failure investigation.
• Demonstrated systems thinking, global collaboration, and product-minded decision-making.
• Experience improving engineering effectiveness through standards, reuse, simulation, automation, analytics, or AI-enabled tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead mechanical architecture, design, CAD, analysis, qualification, and lifecycle engineering.
• Guide programs from concept and prototype through validation, NPI, industrialization, and sustaining.
• Set standards for CAD, GD&T, drawings, tolerances, design reviews, manufacturability and reliability.
• Build rapid-prototyping and machined-part capabilities to accelerate design learning.
• Advance structural, thermal, flow, vibration, reliability, and design-optimization methods.
• Drive value engineering, standardization, reuse, alternate sourcing, and lifecycle cost improvement.
• Build technical depth and future leaders through hiring, mentoring, and succession planning.
• Align global teams on roadmaps, resources, standards and accountability; use automation, analytics and AI tools to improve speed and quality.

Skills

Mechanical architecture

CAD

GD&T

Tolerance analysis

Leadership

Rapid prototyping

Automation

Analytics

AI-enabled tools

Global collaboration

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Mechanical, Mechatronics or related

Job description

A Day in Your Life at MKS

The Senior Manager – Mechanical Engineering will lead and scale the MKS India Center – Engineering mechanical engineering organization across product architecture, mechanical design, vacuum and flow systems, precision assemblies, CAD, analysis, prototyping, qualification, industrialization, and lifecycle engineering. Working with global teams across the complete product lifecycle, this leader will build technical depth, rapid-prototyping capability, common standards, reusable platforms, and future leaders while advancing the center from CAD and sustaining support toward subsystem, platform, NPI, and selected product ownership.

You Will Make an Impact

By lead mechanical architecture, design, CAD, analysis, qualification, and lifecycle engineering. Guide programs from concept and prototype through validation, NPI, industrialization, and sustaining. Set standards for CAD, GD&T, drawings, tolerances, design reviews, manufacturability, and reliability. Build rapid-prototyping and machined-part capabilities to accelerate design learning. Advance structural, thermal, flow, vibration, reliability, and design-optimization methods. Drive value engineering, standardization, reuse, alternate sourcing, and lifecycle cost improvement. Build technical depth and future leaders through hiring, mentoring, and succession planning. Align global teams on roadmaps, resources, standards, and accountability. Use automation, analytics, knowledge reuse, and approved AI tools to improve speed and quality.

Key Result Areas

Delivery and Quality: Schedule predictability, prototype delivery, design quality, qualification success, reliability, and manufacturing readiness. Development Speed: Concept-to-prototype time, design-iteration cycle, first-pass success, and effective use of simulation and rapid prototyping. Lifecycle Value: Cost improvement, standardization, reuse, alternate-source readiness, and obsolescence-risk reduction. 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 Mechanical, Mechatronics or a related discipline.


• 15+ years of mechanical engineering experience, including leadership of multidisciplinary engineering teams and managers.


• Strong technical depth in product architecture, mechanical design, precision assemblies, CAD, GD&T, tolerance analysis, materials, and manufacturing processes.


• Experience leading the product lifecycle from architecture and prototype development through validation, qualification, NPI, industrialization, and sustaining.


• Experience with rapid prototyping, precision machining or fabrication, supplier collaboration, design analysis, reliability, and failure investigation.


• Demonstrated systems thinking, 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, precision instrumentation, industrial automation or other complex high-reliability products.


• Track record in mechanical architecture, platform development, rapid prototyping, qualification, reliability, 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.

About MKS

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.