Overview:
The Lead Quality Engineer is a key figure in ensuring the overall quality management of Core Technology components throughout the product development lifecycle. This role encompasses supplier technical and quality evaluation, new technology introduction, production processes oversight, risk analysis, and lifecycle problem resolution. Success in this position requires translating Dyson’s quality standards into actionable strategies across global supplier networks.
Key Roles & Responsibilities:
Supplier Partnership & Onboarding
- NUDD Selection & Qualification: Evaluate technology partners and suppliers for quality, technical capabilities, and performance records to ensure alignment with Dyson’s quality standards. Provide strategic recommendations to stakeholders.
- Supplier Onboarding: Lead the functional quality onboarding of suppliers to ensure their understanding of Dyson’s quality requirements and prepare them for seamless collaboration across product lifecycles.
Product Development & Manufacturing Oversight
- Product/Part Development: Define and implement end-to-end quality strategies for core technology components in consumer electronics.
- Establish measurable criteria for performance, durability, reliability, and safety related to system integration.
- Manufacturing Process Development: Ensure manufacturing process development and product integration are clearly defined, risk-assessed, and tested to demonstrate readiness and capability to consistently deliver product/part fulfilling Dyson requirements
- Supplier Development: Identify and implement quality improvement initiatives to build supplier competence in delivering top-tier parts/products.
Issue Resolution
- Lead technical risk assessment and issue resolution by leveraging both internal and external expertise to ensure issues are thoroughly understood and robustly addressed throughout product lifecycle.
Skills & Requirements:
Educational & Professional Background:
- Qualification:
- Master’s/Bachelor’s in Electrical, Electronics, or Electromechanical Engineering.
- Experience:
- Minimum 3-5 years of experience in product design, development, and manufacturing, with a focus on electromechanical systems.
Technical Expertise:
- Domain Knowledge:
- Good understanding of key electronic and electromechanical components, including sensors, PCBAs, battery management systems (BMS), power electronics, motors, heaters, and wire harness assemblies.
- Quality Tools/Standards:
- Solid knowledge of industry quality standards such as ISO 9001 and ISO 13485.
- Familiarity with IPC‑610/620, ESD controls, and statistical data analysis techniques.
- Proficient in applying quality methodologies and tools such as 8D, FMEA, GR&R, SPC, DOE, and APQP.
- Preferred Certifications: Six Sigma Green/Black Belt and ISO 9001/13485 Lead Auditor certification.
Communication & Cultural Agility:
- Strong communication skills tailored to technical, non-technical, hierarchical, and geographically diverse audiences.
- Language Proficiency: English (required), Chinese (for collaboration with suppliers in specific regions).
Flexibility & Travel:
- Open to international travel as required by cross-border manufacturing and supplier engagements.
Preferred Experience and Certifications:
- Hands-on expertise with key components such as heaters, sensors, batteries/BMS, PCBs, and motors .
- Certified ISO 9001/13485 auditor .
- Understanding of reliability modeling tools (e.g., Weibull analysis) and manufacturing process validation.
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.
Top Skills
What We Do
At Dyson we are focused on solving the problems that others have ignored; solving them first using our technology and ingenuity. In order to achieve this we need to pioneer technologies that are different and authentic. This is the core of what we do and who we are. We must strive to create the future, every single day by developing new things, different things, things that go against the grain with a diverse and global team of ingenious minds.
Dyson employs over 14,000 people and is present in more than 80 countries. And while we are growing fast we want Dyson to remain a start-up in spirit with the freedom of experimentation and learning, constantly reinventing our products as well as reinventing how we work, how we sell and how we support our owners. At the same time we are working through the James Dyson Foundation, James Dyson Award and Dyson Institute to inspire future engineers and pioneering a new approach to engineering education.
Underlining everything we do in this diverse environment is the need to always show respect, supporting each other as one team to overcome whatever challenges we encounter. We drive empowerment, development and equality in an inclusive environment for our people around the world.
The future doesn’t just happen, we look to make it happen, to achieve leaps through pioneering new ideas
