Recruiting Activity Should Not Create an Intelligence Signal
Our team runs every search through the MKIS Intelligence Platform, an in-house, self-hosted system where AI-assisted sourcing plus a multi-layered human review process does not expose a client’s sensitive information. Recruiting itself can be a signal, and MKIS protects it.
Building the Formal Record to Match the Operating Discipline
Where Technical Precision Meets Talent
We provide specialized recruiting across the nation’s most critical engineering and national-security markets, placing experts who truly understand complex technology.
Aerospace, Defense & Cleared Talent (ADIC)
We specialize in Aerospace, Defense & Cleared Talent (ADIC), placing mission-ready professionals with active clearances (SECRET / TS / TS-SCI). Technical focus includes RF / Microwave and Embedded / FPGA / ASIC.
Semiconductor & Microelectronics
MKIS provides IC-level expertise in Semiconductor & Microelectronics recruiting. We place talent skilled in Design, Reliability, and Power Electronics, including specialized areas like Microcontroller / BLE systems.
Learn MoreTechnical Sales & Engineering Leadership
We staff Technical Sales & Engineering Leadership roles, securing professionals like top FAEs, Sales Directors, and VPs who possess genuine commercial and technical fluency to drive revenue.
Learn MoreProof in the Performance: High-Impact Placements
See how MKIS has rebuilt sales organizations, placed mission-critical engineering talent, and delivered measurable revenue growth.
Technical Sales Leadership
Rebuilding Technical Sales
$8M+ Revenue Increase and reactivated strategic accounts.
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Technical Sales Leadership
Director of Sales
Scaled OEM/ODM Sales Velocity
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Semiconductor – High-reliability Engineering
Hybrid Reliability
Solved relocation barriers with custom engineering plans.
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Technical Recruiting Built by People Who’ve Done the Work
MKIS blends 25 years of engineering, technical sales, and international product experience with precision recruiting. We connect clients with professionals who understand complex technology, customer expectations, and mission-driven execution.
Industries Served
Targeting the critical markets where engineering competence is non-negotiable.
Semiconductor
Recruiting expertise for IC design, process engineering, and high-reliability components that power the modern world.
Defense/DoD Contractors
Supplying mission-critical, cleared engineering talent for prime contractors in aerospace, intelligence, and national security.
RF & Wireless
Specialized sourcing of RF, Microwave, and systems engineers crucial for secure communications and advanced sensor technology.
Power Electronics
Focus on placing experts in SiC/GaN, high-voltage design, and power management for advanced energy systems.
Advanced Manufacturing
Placing product, process, and manufacturing engineers who optimize complex supply chains and production lifecycles.
Veteran Led Precision: The MKIS Foundation
MKIS Precision Search is led by Mark J. Kelly, a U.S. Navy enlisted veteran turned technology executive with more than twenty-five years of practitioner-level experience embedded within the global silicon lifecycle, spanning IC design, tape-out, manufacturing, and test. His academic background is deliberately multi-disciplinary: a BSEE from the University of Akron, earned through the GI Bill; an MBA from Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management; and a Business Analytics credential from Wharton.
MKIS has recruited technical leaders for organizations including Samsung, GlobalFoundries, Seoul Semiconductor, KyoceraSLD, Telink, LEDVANCE, and Case Western Reserve University, among others.
“Representative engagements. Organizations listed reflect past search assignments, not current client status.”
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Disciplined insights for engineering leaders in high-stakes markets.
Observed in cleared programs.
CAD Operator vs. Design Partner
Positioning Layout Expertise for Maximum Value From the candidate’s side of the table. There’s a specific frustration common among senior PCB layout engineers working on genuinely difficult boards: doing hardware-architecture-level work while being treated, organizationally and culturally, as drafting support that executes someone else’s design decisions. What the Work Actually Involves at the High End…
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Observed in cleared programs.
FAE to Account Director
Mapping Your Next Strategic Move From the candidate’s side of the table. Field Applications Engineers occupy an unusual position in the semiconductor world: deep enough technically to solve a customer’s real design problem, commercial enough to understand why that problem matters to the customer’s business. That combination is rarer than it looks, and it’s also…
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Observed in cleared programs.
De-Risking the Jump
Moving From Prime Contractors to Aerospace Startups From the candidate’s side of the table. Moving from an established aerospace prime contractor to a venture-backed space or autonomous systems startup is one of the highest-variance career moves available to a systems or avionics engineer right now, and also one of the most frequently under-evaluated. The technical…
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Observed in cleared programs.
Program Lifecycles and Your Career
When to Stay, When to Move to the Next Program From the candidate’s side of the table. Aerospace systems engineering careers move on two overlapping clocks: your own career trajectory, and the formal review-milestone lifecycle of whatever program you’re attached to. Understanding the second clock, and timing your moves around it deliberately, is one of…
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