Senior Manager – Firmware Engineering

Overview

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.

What you'll do

• Lead firmware sustainment, enhancements, defect resolution, production support, qualification, redesign, NPI, and future product-development programs.
• Provide technical oversight of embedded firmware, real-time controls, instrumentation, communications, diagnostics, device software, and firmware architecture.
• Build and scale the organization through workforce planning, hiring, onboarding, competency development, mentoring, career paths, succession planning, and development of future technical and people leaders.
• Partner with global engineering and product teams to align priorities, roadmaps, resources, standards, and accountability; participate in architecture, requirements, design, code, and technical reviews.
• Establish disciplined firmware lifecycle practices covering requirements traceability, coding standards, design and code reviews, configuration and release management, verification, static analysis, cybersecurity, and defect prevention.
• Drive responsible adoption of AI-assisted development, CI/CD, automated testing, DevOps, reusable firmware platforms, and engineering metrics to improve quality, throughput, and cycle time.
• Partner with Systems Engineering, Software QA, Validation, Reliability, Compliance, and Performance Analysis on product verification, qualification, reliability, field issues, and root-cause investigations.
• Manage portfolio priorities, capacity, budget inputs, delivery, risks, and engineering metrics, with clear visibility of commitments, skills, workload, and hiring needs.
• Create a culture of ownership, collaboration, reuse, automation, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence.

What you'll need

• 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.

Nice to have

• 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.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, Whitefield, India.
• Certain positions require access to controlled goods and technologies subject to export control regulations; applicants may be limited where required by law or governmental control, and employment may be contingent on appropriate governmental licensing.