Engineer, Product Performance

About us

At Dyson we are encouraged to think differently, challenge convention and be unafraid to make mistakes. We’re creative, collaborative, practical and enthusiastic. 

Dyson offers a unique opportunity for skilled individuals to invent, design and develop market leading products for the global market. By working in our world class research, design and development (RDD) department, these professionals have the opportunity to work alongside leading technical specialists and highly motivated creative people to create products which fulfil our vision of being truly different and better than our competitors.

About the role

The Technology Development department comprises of diverse groups of curious, world class engineering specialists. We are experts in our fields, and we ensure Dyson products are on the edge of what’s possible. The department encompasses specialist groups across different disciplines – Product Performance, Acoustics, Fluid Dynamics, Structural Dynamics, Materials. This role resides within the Product Performance group, which provides the technical analysis of hair appliance product performance. Such quantifying and optimising how well the product dries and styles hair.

Main Duties/Responsibilities: 

· Identify the fundamental factors that contribute to the desired performance metric.

· Utilize appropriate modelling tools to make optimization / or predictions.

· Analyze and make recommendation from experimental tests / analytical assessments of data, analysis should hold up to a high standard of technical rigor.

· Design tests and corresponding test plans that efficiently seek to identify and optimize performance and stays authentic to the customers experience of performance.

· Write scripts / Excel / Minitab analysis to create predictive models for performance, have the technical know-how to assess the suitability of your chosen approach and provide clear recommendations to your audience.

· Propose design mitigations, recommendations to achieve performance targets.

· Collaborate with a project team to deliver optimized hair style and drying performance in line with product vision.

About you

· At least a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical/Mechatronics Engineering or equivalent.

· Ideally 3+ years’ experience in product design and development.

· Strong working knowledge of engineering fundamentals, measurement analysis and statistical analysis. Competency in Minitab, MATLAB or Excel or other data acquisition/processing tool.

· Some competencies in the use and application of CAD/CAE tools in general is preferred.

· Reasonable experience in statistical modelling such as multiple regression modeling is preferred.

· Demonstrate strong written and verbal communication skills in English.

· Proficiently communicate ideas and concepts, frequently tailoring communication to suit different levels. Ability to persuade and influence others as needed, typically within a project team.

Dyson is an equal opportunity employer. We know that great minds don’t think alike, and it takes all kinds of minds to make our technology so unique. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other any other dimension of diversity.