MKS
Chemical Manufacturing · Lasers & Laser Systems
111open roles
$140kmedian advertised pay
35 daysmedian time a role stays open
6countries with offices
Overview
MKS Instruments is an American company founded in 1961 that makes the instruments, subsystems and process control equipment inside semiconductor manufacturing tools, which means it sells mainly to the equipment makers rather than to chip fabs directly. Its portfolio covers vacuum and pressure measurement, gas and liquid delivery, power supplies, lasers and photonics, and, since the Atotech acquisition, the chemistry used in advanced packaging and printed circuit board plating. Headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts and listed on Nasdaq, it carries substantial debt from that acquisition and is exposed to the semiconductor equipment cycle at one remove.
How MKS hires
Truth index
B 83/100
Median time to fill
35 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
68%
Reposted roles
0%
MKS scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 22 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 68% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 35 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Jobs
$34k – $50k per year · In office · Full-Time · 1+ year exp · Broomfield
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In office · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Nogales
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$155k per year · In office · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Wilmington
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$120k – $170k per year · In office · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Milpitas
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$62k – $102k per year · In office · Full-Time · 6+ years exp · Associate's Degree · Irvine
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In office · Full-Time · 10+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Beaverton
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$140k
Typical range
$28k – $384k
Open positions
119
113
Jobs
Junior
31%
Middle
6.2%
Senior
41.6%
Staff
1.8%
Principal
15%
Architect
4.4%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 35 | $74k | $50k – $125k |
| Middle | 7 | $74k | $44k – $118k |
| Senior | 47 | $169k | $54k – $384k |
| Staff | 2 | $128k | $106k – $150k |
| Principal | 17 | $195k | $155k – $259k |
| Architect | 5 | $281k | $181k – $323k |
Highest paying role
Senior Director, Engineering
$384k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at MKS
By role, level and city, against the market · 119 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
43/100
Stable
Open positions
156
56 opened / 50 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
38 days
faster than 35% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~7 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
-100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Industrial Engineering
25%
Field & Service
22% ▲
Operations
9%
Hardware
5%
Management
5% ▲
Administrative
4%
Actively hiring for Field & Service (+27 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
+29 jobs in a week
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New location: Gurgaon
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Added OneDrive to stack
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Added SAP BusinessObjects to stack
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Added Visual Basic to stack
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Added Confocal Microscopy to stack
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Added Mass Spectrometry to stack
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Added PowerShell to stack
Oct 2026
Added ITSM to stack
Oct 2026
Added Incident Management to stack
Oct 2026
Added Bash to stack
Oct 2026
Added Service Desk to stack
Oct 2026
Financials
Est. Annual Revenue
$3.9B
2025
Revenue
+10% YoY
Estimate
Modelled from public signals, not audited accounts - read it as an order of magnitude.
| Year | Estimate | Low | High |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | $1.3B | $1.3B | $1.3B |
| 2017 | $1.9B | $1.9B | $1.9B |
| 2018 | $2.1B | $2.1B | $2.1B |
| 2019 | $1.9B | $1.9B | $1.9B |
| 2020 | $2.3B | $2.3B | $2.3B |
| 2021 | $3B | $3B | $3B |
| 2022 | $3.5B | $3.5B | $3.5B |
| 2023 | $3.6B | $3.6B | $3.6B |
| 2024 | $3.6B | $3.6B | $3.6B |
| 2025 | $3.9B | $3.9B | $3.9B |
Products
Power and Plasma
Radio frequency and microwave power supplies that generate and control plasma in etch and deposition tools. Plasma control determines process repeatability, which is ultimately what a fab is paying for.
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Atotech Chemistry
Plating chemistry and equipment for printed circuit boards and advanced packaging, acquired in 2022. Advanced packaging has become as important to chip performance as transistor scaling, which is what made the acquisition strategic.
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Photonics and Lasers
Lasers, optics and beam delivery systems for industrial and scientific applications. It serves markets beyond semiconductors, which gives the company some diversification away from a highly cyclical core business.
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Materials Delivery
Gas and liquid delivery subsystems that supply process chemicals with extreme precision. Contamination or flow variation at these tolerances destroys wafer yield, which is why these components are qualified rather than simply purchased.
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Vacuum and Pressure Solutions
Measurement and control instruments for the vacuum environments semiconductor processes require. Selling to tool makers rather than to fabs means demand arrives one step earlier in the cycle and swings harder.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at MKS over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
90
Postings analysed
111
Stack modernity
63/100
Languages
Python23%
MATLAB9%
SQL6%
C++5%
Frameworks & libraries
Ray3%
OpenCV1%
Pytest1%
Databases
SAP BW2%
MS SQL1%
Oracle1%
SAP HANA1%
Cloud & platforms
Windows13%
Power BI9%
Azure7%
AWS5%
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
18
Hiring now
18
Countries
6
Busiest office
Andover
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Andover
United States
HQ
Andover Shattuck, MA
29 open roles 37 posted in 90 days 24% engineering 200-500 est. staff $174k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Finance, Hardware
Rochester
United States
Plant / site
Linden Ave Rochester, NY
19 open roles 22 posted in 90 days 53% engineering 200-500 est. staff $111k Avg Salary
hires for QA, Field & Service, Hardware
Irvine
United States
Regional office
MKS Corporate
18 open roles 26 posted in 90 days 22% engineering 200-500 est. staff $129k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, QA, HR
Broomfield
United States
Plant / site
Broomfield, CO
18 open roles 28 posted in 90 days 200-500 est. staff $88k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Operations, Field & Service
Milpitas
United States
Regional office
Milpitas, CA
12 open roles 13 posted in 90 days 33% engineering 50-200 est. staff $198k Avg Salary
hires for Hardware, Industrial Engineering, Semiconductors
Wilmington
United States
Regional office
Wilmington, MA
11 open roles 15 posted in 90 days 18% engineering 50-200 est. staff $160k Avg Salary
hires for QA, Operations, Industrial Engineering
Nogales
Mexico
Plant / site
Mexico Nogales
10 open roles 20 posted in 90 days 10% engineering 200-500 est. staff
hires for Industrial Engineering, QA, Leadership
Lawrence
United States
Plant / site
Lawrence, MA
7 open roles 14 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff $81k Avg Salary
hires for Field & Service, Industrial Engineering, Management
Beaverton
United States
Regional office
Beaverton, OR
6 open roles 7 posted in 90 days 33% engineering 50-200 est. staff $205k Avg Salary
hires for Field & Service, DevOps, Hardware
Methuen
United States
Plant / site
Methuen, MA
4 open roles 11 posted in 90 days 25% engineering 50-200 est. staff $111k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, DevOps
Franklin
United States
Plant / site
Franklin, MA
4 open roles 7 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff $87k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Field & Service
Gurgaon
India
Support & operations
4 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Support, Enterprise Apps
Richmond
Canada
Plant / site
Canada Richmond
3 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff $94k Avg Salary
hires for Leadership, Field & Service, Industrial Engineering
Rock Hill
United States
Rock Hill, SC
2 open roles 7 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
hires for Management, Operations
Bangkok
Thailand
Thailand Bangkok
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Backend, Industrial Engineering
Taboão da Serra
Brazil
Brazil Taboao da Serra
2 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Administrative, Sales
North Logan
United States
North Logan, UT
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff $160k Avg Salary
hires for Backend
Ward Hill
United States
Ward Hill, MA
1 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $118k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering
Earlier presence
Haverhill, United States