# Senior Manager - Firmware Engineering

A Day in Your Life at MKS : The Senior Manager - Firmware Engineering will 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. The role will build a globally integrated team that progresses from task execution to ownership of firmware deliverables, workstreams, platforms, subsystems, and selected product outcomes. The leader will provide technical and people leadership across embedded domain while driving modern engineering practices, AI-assisted development, CI/CD, test automation, quality and productivity. You Will Make an Impact By : - 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 deve

- **Id**: 4227608
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/mks-senior-manager-firmware-engineering>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Bengaluru, India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 15
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T06:00:28Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T06:00:28Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4542
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Lasers & Laser Systems, Chemical Manufacturing, Semiconductor Equipment

## Company

- **Id**: 1042866
- **Name**: MKS
- **Domain**: mks.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/mks-6>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 23
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.652
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 36
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Embedded C** — Optional: no
- **C** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 15
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T08:29:55Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 36
- **Reasons**: seen:0, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T17:45:31Z

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