Senior Principal Laser Quality Engineer – MKS Inc. – Jobs in Milpitas, CA | OpenJobs AI

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Senior Principal Laser Quality Engineer

$175k/y-$220k/y

MKS Inc.

2 days ago

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OnsiteFull-timeSenior

Summary

MKS Inc. is seeking a Senior Principal Laser Quality Engineer to join their team in Milpitas, CA. The role involves leading qualification planning, validation strategy, and production readiness activities to support new product introduction in the laser manufacturing sector.

About the Role

As a Senior Principal Laser Quality Engineer, you will partner with design, manufacturing, and supply chain teams to ensure robust PFMEA and control plans are implemented before production. You will apply design for excellence principles and design of experiments to optimize manufacturing processes, lead root cause analysis and corrective actions for quality issues, and collaborate with suppliers to enhance incoming material quality.

About You

Required:

Bachelor's degree in Optics, Physics, or Electrical Engineering or similar; a M.S. or PhD is highly preferred.
10+ years of progressive quality engineering experience or similar.
7+ years in laser, photonics, optoelectronics, or precision electro-mechanical manufacturing or similar.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills (8D, Fault Tree, Kepner-Tregoe, 5-Why).
Experience with APQP, PPAP, FAI, FMEA, DMAIC, Gage R&R, DFx, DOE, and/or Six Sigma.
Experience in ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management Systems.

Preferred:

Proven experience supporting NPI transfer into high-volume manufacturing.
Reliability engineering experience.
Proficiency in Minitab, MATLAB, Python, C++, and Microsoft Copilot AI.
Strong communication and cross-functional leadership skills.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package including health insurance coverage (medical, dental, and vision).
401(k) with company match.
Life and disability insurance.
12 paid holidays, sick time, and 15 paid vacation days.
6 weeks fully paid parental leave.
Adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement.

MKS Inc.

MKS enables technologies that transform our world. We deliver foundational technology solutions to leading edge semiconductor manufacturing, electronics and packaging, and specialty industrial applications. We apply our broad science and engineering capabilities to create instruments, subsystems, systems, process control solutions and specialty chemicals technology that improve process performance, optimize productivity and enable unique innovations for many of the world’s leading technology and industrial companies. Our solutions are critical to addressing the challenges of miniaturization and complexity in advanced device manufacturing by enabling increased power, speed, feature enhancement, and optimized connectivity. Our solutions are also critical to addressing ever-increasing performance requirements across a wide array of specialty industrial applications. Additional information can be found at www.mks.com.

Milpitas, CA