Principal Applications and Test Engineer

A Day in Your Life at MKS:

As a Principal Applications Engineer at MKS you will partner with a talented multidisciplinary team supplying precision vacuum pressure measurement instruments to the semiconductor medical and industrial equipment markets. Key activities will include customer facing issue resolution active oversight of root cause analysis identifying product performance limitations and establishing roadmaps to improvement. This is an exciting handson role with significant growth potential.

*This role has an anticipated start date of April 2025.

What you will do:

• Develop a deep understanding of MKS product performance and customer applications.
• Collaborate with internal crossfunctional teams and external customers to resolve customer product issues identify root cause of product failures or performance limitations resolve customer usage issues.
• Troubleshoot complex issues to root cause and support the product team in resolution.
• Support Continuous Improvement activities to enhance our products and customer support.
• Participate as a key member of multidisciplinary development teams providing customer input to industry leading sensor and electronics designs and specifications.
• Provide support for verification qualification and validation studies on existing products.
• Provide both presales and postsales technical product support.

Skills You Bring:

• Experience working with customers of technicallycomplex products.
• Extensive experience supporting multidisciplinary products ideally vacuum processing equipment or sensor technologies.
• Demonstrated project management skills with the ability to coordinate multiple projects simultaneously.
• Handson engineering skills capable of test development setup and as well as managing technical resources to perform these tasks.
• Must be selfmotivated an excellent collaborator and have an intense customer/product focus.
• Experience with sensors and instrumentation vacuum systems or semiconductor capital equipment strongly preferred.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present effectively to both internal and external stakeholders worldwide.
• BS or higher in Electrical Engineering Systems Engineering Physics or related field
• 8 years of experience advanced degree a plus.
• *This role has an anticipated start date of April 2025.

We are interested in a qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. However we will not be sponsoring work visas for this position at this time.

MKS is an equal opportunity employer including disability veteran status and all categories protected by law. Please review our EOE statements for additional details. MKS is generally only hiring candidates who reside in states where we are registered to do business.

*This role has an anticipated start date of April 2025.

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