# Senior Mechanical Engineer

A Day in Your Life at MKS: As a Senior Mechanical Engineer at MKS Instruments, Irvine Systems, and a member of the Irvine Central Mechanical Engineering Team, you will partner with; Irvine Systems Engineering {Product Engineering, Test & Measurement, Project Management, and Product Marketing}, Systems Assembly, NPO {shaping and coating} to; plan, conceptualize, design, document, lead design reviews, submit Engineering Change Orders, procure and test high precision opto-mechanical products, tooling and fixtures. You will have the opportunity to work with a multi-disciplined team supporting the design and documentation of new and existing products for the semiconductor fabrication industry, as well as deliver robust, repeatable fixturing and tooling used to manufacture high precision optics and optical assemblies. In this role, you will report to the Irvine Central Mechanical Engineering manager. You Will Make an Impact By: Utilizing NX and SolidWorks to analyze, design and document mechanical systems, equipment, fixturing, and packaging Conducting feasibility studies and testing new and modified designs including RSS Tolerance analysis and FEA Manage multiple projects supporting dif

- **Id**: 4080619
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/mks-senior-mechanical-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Irvine, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T17:08:05Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T17:08:05Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 9979
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Health insurance, Insurance coverage, Parental leave
- **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**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 79
- **Open postings**: 23
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.826
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 35
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 115000
- **Max**: 155000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 155000

## Technologies

- **SolidWorks** — Optional: no
- **Agile** — Optional: yes
- **ANSYS** — Optional: yes
- **FMEA** — Optional: yes
- **Siemens NX** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T17:08:05Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 4; Filings 12m: 4

## 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**: conf:2, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T19:09:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 155000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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