Lead Hardware & Software Test Engineer
Dyson is hiring a Lead Hardware & Software Test Engineer. Level rates it ; you can apply on Dyson.
Level's read on this job
- Works on AI ●●●○ is how Level rates this role: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- The posting mentions Python, testing and qa among its tools and skills.
- Level classes it as a lead role.
- Dyson has 418 other open roles on Level.
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Lead Hardware & Software Test Engineer to define test strategies and verify complex systems including robot behaviors and AI/ML features.
Key Responsibility:
- Analyze project scope, technical risks, and requirements to define project-level test strategies.
- Deploy sophisticated software & electronic testing solutions to ensure efficient verification of requirements.
- Design and lead comprehensive test strategy & plans and oversee their execution, including robot behaviors and other categories of AI/ML related intelligence features.
- Adapt plans as project scope or architecture evolves.
- When new technologies are introduced (e.g., IoT, machine learning), identify their unique testing needs.
- Identify the test related technical problem, design a solution to fix the problem.
- Assess third-party suppliers’ and partners’ test strategies, processes, and software quality metrics
- Define clear quality criteria and acceptance standards for third-party deliverables.
- Set expectations around required documentation, defect rates, test coverage, and code quality metrics.
- Collaborate directly with third-party engineers or QA leads—reviewing test documentation, results, and metrics to ensure alignment with Dyson standards.
- Drive integration testing plans to verify that third-party components work seamlessly with whole systems.
- Provide feedback, raise concerns early, and hold suppliers accountable for agreed quality benchmarks.
Key Skill/Experience:
- A degree in Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering, Data Science, or in related fields.
Familiarity with embedded system, IoT, or real-time operating systems.
Good knowledge about AI/ML, and related test experience, such as tackling complex challenges involving multi-layered data sets and refining existing automation libraries and frameworks.
- Robust programming abilities, particularly in python.
- Excellent attention to detail, exceptional communication abilities, technical leadership, and the capacity to thrive independently in a fast-paced setting.
- Well-versed in Agile software engineering development, test, software security development lifecycle.
Experience with IOT products software test, including embedded software, app, cloud, data analytics and so on.
- Able to work in fast-paced environment and delivery quality under minimal supervision.
Be familiar with software quality assurance and related key techniques/tools.
- Critical thinking and problem solver.
- Strategic thinking as able to design proportionate, risk-based test coverage for in-house and supplied components.
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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.
How we rate this
Lead Hardware & Software Test Engineer at Dyson rates 60 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
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- Tell me about a project where embedded systems was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where iot was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where machine learning was part of your work. What did you do?
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