About the Software team in the Philippines
Software is becoming an ever-bigger part of our products at Dyson. Connectivity, advanced User Interfaces, and Artificial Intelligence are part of the solutions for most of our products. We are looking to onboard a passionate and talented Senior Software Manager to join us at our campus here in the Philippines. The Senior Software Manager will lead and mentor a team of embedded software engineers, overseeing design, development, and delivery of high-performance solutions. You’ll work cross-functionally with hardware, product, and test teams to ensure embedded software teams’ deliveries are industry-leading.
Reporting To
Head of Hardware & Software - Philippines
About the Role
- Ownership - Line manage a team of engineering managers, tech leads and developers to deliver embedded software for Dyson’s beauty products
- Delivery - Drive software delivery ensuring we achieve our four Ons: On time, on quality, on spec, on cost.
- Collaboration - Build strong relationships with global software leadership and wider product and engineering teams.
- Communication - Represent the embedded software team with clear communications between key stakeholders and leadership team members
- Escalation – Key point out to issues that need attention, bring in Philippines topics to the engineering leadership team which you are part of.
- Leadership - Motivate teams by removing blockers, tackling critical issues, and finding all the ways to avoid delays. Build team spirit and encourage growth.
- Technical – Step in, where needed, to guide development, design and ensure adoption of best development practices (e.g. CI/CD, unit testing etc.)
- Talent - Grow the team by identifying gaps, retaining, hiring, and onboarding top talent
- Continuous Improvement – Foster within the team, efforts to continuously improve processes, toolchains and ways of working to ensure quality and efficiency.
About you
- 3+ years’ experience line management and/or technical leadership of embedded software teams delivering production quality solutions
- 10+ years’ experience in software development (embedded) using C/C++ with experience in both bare metal and RTOS development environments
- Deep understanding of modern software development lifecycle (SDLC) best practices such as version control, TDD and CI/CD
- Solid experience managing team deliverables within an Agile framework using industry standard tools (e.g. Jira)
- Excellent leadership and cross-functional influencing skills. Ability to mentor teams, uplift competencies, and build a high-performance engineering culture.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, capable of presenting complex technical information clearly to executives and non-technical leaders.
- Strong ability to multi-task across multiple product deliverables and manage multiple schedules simultaneously.
- You have a degree in relevant engineering or science discipline or equivalent
- You must be fluent in English
Bonus:
- Expertise in IoT, motor control and sensor control software is highly desirable
- Knowledge of build systems and software configuration tools are a plus
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
- 3+ years line management and/or technical leadership of embedded software teams
- 10+ years experience in software development (embedded) using C/C++
- Deep understanding of modern software development lifecycle (SDLC) best practices
- Solid experience managing team deliverables within an Agile framework
- Excellent leadership and cross-functional influencing skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Degree in relevant engineering or science discipline or equivalent
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
