What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Embedded Control Engineer position at MKS Inc.?
A Day in Your Life at MKS:
The Sr. Embedded Control Engineer will report to the Electrical Engineering Manager.
About the role:
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.
The Sr. Embedded Control Engineer will report to the Electrical Engineering Manager.
About the role:
- Application: Design firmware for Power electronics (ranging from 3-30kW) used for plasma and reactive gas generation, crucial for semiconductor cleaning and etching processes.
- Cool Technology: Work on significant and unique issues where analysis of situations or data requiring an evaluation of intangibles.
- Collaborative Innovation: Partner with scientists to explore control mechanisms and gas interactions, gaining insights into exciting technologies.
- Interdisciplinary Work: Collaborate with plasma physicists, material scientists and chemists, expanding your knowledge and contributing to groundbreaking developments.
- Lead the development of DSP based digital control for power electronics projects that involve a multi-discipline engineering team.
- Lead the development of inter-system communication between the system level elements.
- Perform engineering analysis and implement advanced control algorithms for power converters, RF and microwave systems.
- Develop, document, and execute DVT plans. Report on results and recommend appropriate engineering tradeoffs to optimize functional firmware performance and relative product cost.
- Create, control and archive the firmware development documentation.
- Collaborate with power electronics engineers to integrate firmware to hardware components.
- Participate in cross-functional project teams to execute upon new product developments involving power electronics for plasma generation applications.
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical or computer engineering with 5 years’ experience.
- Advanced degree and 3 years of direct applicable experience
- Must have a record of firmware development from the conceptual stage to the product launch with DSP using C/C and/or MATLAB/Simulink.
- Must have demonstrated experience in DSP programming for the design of either of the resonant inverters, boost or buck converters, or single/three phase power factor correction topologies.
- Familiar with common power electronics topologies and their associated digital control (etc. PFC, buck, boost or resonant inverters).
- Familiar with hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) model-based testing for validating board level developments to system level state machines.
- Familiar with version control systems.
- Familiar with graphical user interface (GUI) development for hardware testing.
- Must have solid analytical skills with the ability to simplify and present complicated systems.
- Familiar with semiconductor capital equipment preferred.
- Ability to use lab tools such as oscilloscopes, power meters, etc.
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.
