Job Title: Lead Embedded Software Engineer
The Role:
As a Lead Embedded Software Engineer, you will serve as Dyson's software delivery leader and primary software owner for JDM-developed software within connected electronic products. This role combines the responsibilities of a Technical Lead and JDM Software Governance Lead, ensuring successful delivery of embedded software from concept through production.
Working closely with the Embedded Software Architect, you will translate product requirements, business objectives, and customer needs into executable software plans and technical deliverables. While the Software Architect owns the software architecture, technical strategy, safety, and security direction, you will own software execution, prioritization, supplier leadership, technical coordination, and delivery management.
You will lead Dyson's engagement with JDM software engineering teams, providing governance to ensure all software development activities comply with Dyson architecture, engineering standards, security requirements, quality expectations, and project milestones. You will act as the key interface between Dyson engineering teams, JDM software teams, project stakeholders, and business functions, driving alignment and delivery throughout the development lifecycle.
This role requires strong technical leadership, excellent embedded software knowledge, supplier management experience, and the ability to drive software delivery across multiple organizations in a fast-paced product development environment.
This role will be based at the Dyson Shenzhen Office and/or JDM supplier sites, depending on project needs. The successful candidate should be willing to travel and work onsite at JDM locations as required to support architecture reviews, technical alignment, development activities, integration, and product delivery.
Key Responsibilities
- Define software product requirements, roadmaps, user stories, and acceptance criteria in collaboration with stakeholders.
- Own software backlogs, prioritization, release planning, scope management, and roadmap execution.
- Ensure software work packages are clearly defined, estimated, prioritized, and aligned with program milestones.
- Translate business, customer, and regulatory needs into executable software deliverables.
- Lead embedded software development, integration, testing, validation, and release activities.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to JDM software teams throughout the product lifecycle.
- Review technical solutions to ensure compliance with architecture, coding standards, security, and quality requirements.
- Act as Dyson’s primary software lead for JDM partners, owning delivery commitments, priorities, and performance.
- Govern software execution through technical, quality, and milestone reviews while managing risks, technical debt, and delivery issues.
- Drive continuous improvement in supplier engineering capability, development processes, testing effectiveness, and delivery performance.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to manage dependencies, resolve issues, and support successful product delivery.
- Communicate software progress, risks, quality metrics, and delivery status to stakeholders and leadership teams.
Key Skills / Experience
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline.
- Proven experience leading software development projects involving JDM, ODM, OEM, EMS, or external development partners.
- Strong proficiency in embedded C/C++ software development.
- Strong understanding of embedded software architecture and design principles.
- Experience with RTOS-based embedded systems and MCU platforms.
- Strong knowledge of communication interfaces and protocols including I2C, SPI, UART, BLE, Wi-Fi, MQTT, and related technologies.
- Experience with hardware-software integration, board bring-up, debugging, and system validation.
- Familiarity with embedded Linux environments and software build systems.
- Experience using Git and modern software development workflows.
- Understanding of OTA updates, cloud connectivity, software security principles, and secure coding practices.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and software quality practices.
- Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum software development methodologies.
- Proven experience managing product backlogs, software roadmaps, feature prioritization, and release planning.
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 Engineering, Electronics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline.
- Proven experience leading software development projects with JDM, ODM, OEM, or EMS partners.
- Strong proficiency in embedded C/C++ software development.
- Strong understanding of embedded software architecture and design principles.
- Experience with RTOS-based embedded systems and MCU platforms.
- Knowledge of communication interfaces and protocols including I2C, SPI, UART, BLE, Wi-Fi, and MQTT.
- Experience with hardware-software integration, board bring-up, debugging, and system validation.
- Familiarity with embedded Linux environments and software build systems.
- Experience using Git and modern software development workflows.
- Understanding of OTA updates, cloud connectivity, software security principles, and secure coding practices.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and software quality practices.
- Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies and proven experience managing product backlogs, roadmaps, prioritization, and release planning.
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
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