The Associate Principal Engineer (Core Technology) is a key technical position in Quality and Product Safety Organization for ensuring the overall quality of integrating embedded system and key components throughout the product development lifecycle. This role encompasses supplier technical and quality evaluation, component and system integration risk management, production process oversight, and lifecycle problem resolution. Success in this position requires collaborating with internal and external technology partners and 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 embedded software, applications, and system-level integration in consumer electronics.
- Collaborate with engineering teams and suppliers to define Critical-to-Quality (CTQ) metrics specific to power systems and drive system designs
- Review architecture designs, APIs, and firmware updates for potential quality risks.
- Establish measurable criteria for performance, durability, reliability, and safety related to system integration. Align test methodologies to measure and validate capability to meet the said criteria.
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 Degree in Electrical, Electronics, or Electromechanical Engineering.
- Experience: Minimum 8 years of experience in product development, testing and manufacturing, with a focus on embedded or electromechanical systems.
Technical Expertise:
- Domain Knowledge: Proficiency in embedded systems architecture, alongside working knowledge of components such as sensors, PCBs, Battery Management System, Power Electronics, Motors, Heater, and wire harnesses.
- Quality Tools/Standards:
- Knowledge of Quality Management System ISO 9001/13485.
- Familiar with IPC-610/620 standards, ESD, and statistical data analysis methods.
- Experience in tools like 8D, FMEA, GR&R, SPC, DOE, and APQP.
Data-Driven & Leadership Approach:
- Advanced problem-solving skills coupled with data/statistical proficiency.
- Excellent organizational, analytical, and prioritization abilities, comfortable working under pressure and managing multiple projects.
- Ability to drive technical excellence and innovation among cross-functional teams and suppliers.
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.
- Relevant affiliations with global technical entities to enhance collaborative opportunities and align with industry standards.
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.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's or master's degree in electrical, electronics, or electromechanical engineering
- At least 8 years of experience in product development, testing, and manufacturing focused on embedded or electromechanical systems
- Proficiency in embedded systems architecture
- Working knowledge of sensors, PCBs, battery management systems, power electronics, motors, heaters, and wire harnesses
- Knowledge of ISO 9001 or ISO 13485 quality management systems
- Familiarity with IPC-610, IPC-620, ESD, and statistical data analysis
- Experience with 8D, FMEA, GR&R, SPC, DOE, and APQP
- Advanced problem-solving, analytical, organizational, and prioritization skills
- Strong communication skills across technical, non-technical, hierarchical, and geographically diverse audiences
- English language proficiency
- Willingness to travel internationally as required
- Hands-on experience with heaters, sensors, batteries or BMS, PCBs, and motors
- ISO 9001 or ISO 13485 auditor certification
- Knowledge of reliability modeling tools such as Weibull analysis
- Experience with manufacturing process validation
- Chinese language proficiency for supplier collaboration
- Affiliations with global technical organizations
Dyson Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Dyson and has not been reviewed or approved by Dyson.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision offerings are broad, paired with company‑paid life and disability coverage, plus EAP, backup care, and wellness incentives. Employer‑funded healthcare dollars and premium‑discount or Lifestyle Spending Account options further enhance coverage value.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with a company match is consistently advertised on U.S. postings. This provides predictable retirement support across roles.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing programs, commuter benefits, and notable product discounts supplement core coverage. Wellness incentives and a Lifestyle Spending Account expand lifestyle support beyond medical plans.
Dyson Insights
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
