Senior Principal Controls Engineer
MKS Instruments · Andover, MA
- Level
- Senior
- Team
- Controls
- Base pay
- $155k–$259k
- Degree
- Required
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 16 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A senior controls role at MKS Instruments (industrial) in Andover, MA. You will work with other engineers, customers, applications, manufacturing, and supply chain to develop and support vacuum valves.
- They ask for
- degree required
- Tools it names
- Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ)
- Base pay
- $155k–$259k
- Day to day
- some off-shift / weekend coverage
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How this role compares
Against 26 other live controls postings in Massachusetts.
- Base pay
- About 91% above similar roles
- Experience asked
- Not stated
Typical $87k–$130k, from 11 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- PLC 74%
- Automation 74%
- Robotics 37%
- ✓ Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ) 26%
- Root cause 22%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
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This plant: MKS Instruments in Andover
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requirements
and develop innovative solutions to solve our customers most difficult problems.
- ✓Use your knowledge, experience, and analysis tools such as Simulink / Matlab to model multidiscipline systems including motor drive electronics, motion control algorithms, encoders, mechanical drives, vacuum systems, and gas handling dynamics.
- ✓Work closely with firmware engineers to implement, tune and validate motion and pressure control algorithms.
- ✓Collaborate with manufacturing and operations teams throughout the product development, launch, and scale-up to volume production to ensure designs are manufacturable and reliable.
- ✓Participate in all phases of the product development lifecycle, including concept development, feasibility validation, design, prototyping, testing, and production release.
- ✓Ensure all products meet quality standards, performance expectations, and regulatory
requirements
through thorough testing, validation, and design verification processes.
qualifications
and business needs. We conduct background checks and drug screens, in accordance with applicable law and company policies. MKS is generally only hiring candidates who reside in states where we are registered to do business.
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A Day in the Life at MKS
As a Senior Principal Controls Engineer at MKS Andover, you will work with other engineers, customers, applications, manufacturing, and supply chain to develop and support vacuum valves.
You Will Make an Impact By
- •In this role, you will make a meaningful impact by contributing to the design and development of advanced mechanical products used across multiple industries.
- •Lead the design and development of advanced control solutions for vacuum valve products
- •Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of product design engineers focused on vacuum valve innovation and performance
- •Contribute to the specification, modeling, development, design of complex motor control and vacuum pressure control systems.
- •Partner directly with customers and applications engineers to understand customers
Skills You Bring
- •Bachelor’s, Master’s , or Ph.D. degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline.
- •12 or more years of relevant work experience.
- •Strong experience with Control System Analysis, Modeling and design
- •Experience with embedded firmware systems, data acquisition signal processing and system integration
- •Technical experience in product development from concept to manufacturing.
- •Strong communication and teamwork skills
Preferred Skills
- +Experience Semiconductor manufacturing equipment
- +Experience with Vacuum Technology and vacuum process control
- +Experience developing motion control systems for electromechanical products