A Day in Your Life at MKS
As a Global HS Classification Specialist within the Harmonized System Center of Excellence (HSCOE), you will research, assign, document, and maintain product classifications across multiple national tariff schedules. You will work with technical documentation and partner with Engineering, Product Management, Supply Chain, regional trade teams, and other subject-matter experts to understand product function, composition, operating principles, and end use. You will apply formal HS classification methodology, prepare explicit and auditable rationale, and help build the standards and knowledge base that support a sustainable global classification capability.
This is an experienced individual-contributor role for someone who can independently complete routine and moderate-risk classifications, recognize when an issue requires escalation, and explain complex conclusions clearly to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
You Will Make an Impact By




· Researching and assigning 6-digit HS classifications and applicable country-specific tariff extensions across multiple national tariff schedules.
· Applying the General Rules of Interpretation, Section and Chapter Notes, Explanatory Notes, customs rulings, and country-specific tariff guidance in a disciplined and sequential manner.
· Analyzing product drawings, specifications, bills of material, datasheets, product descriptions, images, existing records, and other technical evidence.
· Engaging Engineering, Product Management, Supply Chain, regional trade teams, and other technical SMEs when available documentation is incomplete, unclear, or conflicting.
· Documenting the relevant technical facts, alternatives considered, methodology applied, sources reviewed, final code, national tariff extension, assumptions, and approval status.
· Completing routine and moderate-risk classifications independently and escalating high-risk, ambiguous, precedent-setting, or strategically important cases for review by the

📌 Global HS Classification Specialist (Bengaluru)
🏢 MKS Instruments
📍 Bengaluru