Associate Principal BMS Hardware Engineer

Dyson Institute; Johor Bahru; On-site; MYR 300,000 - 460,000; Full time

Job summary

Dyson Institute in Malaysia seeks a senior technical leader to shape robust designs and engineering standards for digital motors and battery management systems, leading power electronics across multiple projects and product categories.

You will define platform architecture, drive design reviews, mentor engineers, collaborate with global teams, and ensure safety, reliability, and manufacturability while advancing Dyson's innovation culture.

Qualifications

• Degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering with significant product development experience.
• 7+ years in electronic design, power electronics or high-performance hardware environments.
• Strong expertise in Battery Management Systems and secondary battery technologies.
• Experience designing power electronics products such as motor drives, inverters, SMPS, chargers.

Responsibilities

• Define, develop and promote platform architecture and design standards for power electronics.
• Lead technical reviews, risk assessments, and validation strategy across multiple projects and product categories.
• Collaborate with ODM/JDM/OEM suppliers, suppliers and manufacturing teams to ensure manufacturability and reliability.
• Mentor engineers, drive engineering discipline, and promote best practices across SEA and global locations.

Skills

Power electronics

Battery management systems

Motor drives

Inverters

EMC/EMI

Thermal management

Circuit design

PCB layout

Simulation tools

AI-enabled HW design

Education

Electrical Engineering degree

Tools

SPICE

MATLAB/Simulink

SiMetrix

Job description

About us

The Electrical Power Systems group is a global and multidisciplinary team responsible for the development of the driver of Dyson Digital Motors and Lithium-Ion battery management. Dyson Digital Motors are small and light, yet extremely powerful; they power the next generation of handheld vacuum cleaners as well as the Supersonic which is revolutionizing the beauty category. Dyson battery management systems provide the high-power energy sources required to power the category leading cord free, beauty and robot products. As part of this group, we are looking to expand our Power Electronics capability in SEA.

About the role

We are looking for a senior technical leader who can shape robust designs, raise engineering standards, and influence future product and technology roadmaps in the development of the digital motors and battery management system. A recognized technical expert who can provide technical leadership for power electronics and battery management system design across multiple projects and product categories including battery pack integration, charging system, protection architecture, ensuring delivery of safe, reliable, and high-performance solutions. Own, steer and defining the technical direction for power electronics content, including platform architecture, design reviews, risk management, validation strategy, and production-intent delivery. Lead the development and implementation of robust BMS, motor drive, inverter, SMPS, and power conversion solutions that meet global product, safety, EMC/EMI, reliability, compliance and quality requirements. Act as a subject matter expert across the business, providing authoritative guidance on power device selection, circuit topology, thermal performance, protection strategy, system integration, and design trade-offs. Identify, assess, and resolve complex technical risks early in the product lifecycle, using structured engineering judgement, data-driven analysis, and cross-functional collaboration. Define, develop and promote best practices, design standards, technical guidelines, and engineering processes to improve consistency, quality, efficiency, and reuse across global teams. Able to influence technical direction, engineering standards, and key architecture decisions across the organization. Support and contribute to platforming and architecture development for future BMS and power electronics solutions, enabling scalable designs, shorter development cycles, improved cost competitiveness, and stronger safety governance. Partner with global engineering teams, project leaders, suppliers, manufacturing, quality, safety, test, and compliance teams to ensure designs are manufacturable, testable, reliable, and ready for launch. Lead technical reviews and communicate complex engineering topics clearly to engineers, project stakeholders, and senior management to support effective decision-making. Mentor, coach, and develop engineers within the team and wider organization, strengthening technical capability, engineering discipline, and knowledge sharing. Drive continuous improvement in tools, methods, standards, simulation, verification, validation, and design documentation across SEA and global locations. Champion Dyson's culture of innovation, technical excellence, constructive challenge, and accountability while ensuring safety and reliability remain central to all engineering decisions.

About you

• Degree or equivalent experience in Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Power Electronics, or a comparable discipline, with significant industrial experience in product development.


• More than 7 years of industry experience in electronic design, power electronics, battery management systems, motor drives, or similar high-performance hardware development environments.


• Strong technical expertise in Battery Management Systems and secondary battery technologies for battery-powered products, including protection systems, sensing, cell monitoring, power path control, thermal management, safety strategy, and system integration.


• Proven experience in the design and development of power electronics products such as motor drives, battery management systems, inverters, SMPS, chargers, DC/DC converters, or other high-power electronic systems.


• Deep understanding of semiconductor device characteristics, including MOSFETs, IGBTs, diodes, gate drivers, protection devices, and emerging power technologies in real-world applications.


• Strong knowledge of circuit design, schematic review, PCB layout considerations, component selection, derating, creepage and clearance, EMC/EMI mitigation, and design for manufacturability.


• Experienced in simulation, analysis, and validation tools such as SPICE, SiMetrix, MATLAB, Simulink, or equivalent tools used for power electronics and system-level evaluation.


• Experience in applying AI-enabled tools or AI-augmented engineering workflows for hardware design, verification, validation, documentation, test automation, or test environment optimization is highly desirable.


• Proven ability to understand, design and validate products for global safety, reliability, EMC/EMI, thermal, and regulatory compliance requirements.


• Strong capability in failure analysis, root-cause investigation, technical risk assessment, design verification, design assurance, and problem solving across complex hardware systems.


• Able to provide technical direction, lead cross-functional technical reviews, challenge assumptions constructively, and make sound engineering decisions under uncertainty.


• Experienced in mentoring engineers, building technical capability, and influencing engineering practice beyond direct project delivery.


• Experience working with ODM/JDM/OEM/EMS suppliers, capable of leading technical reviews, supplier assessments, design governance, and manufacturing readiness activities.


• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to explain complex technical matters clearly to multidisciplinary teams and senior management.


• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, global, and multidisciplinary environment, balancing technical depth with project delivery, quality, cost, and schedule needs.


• Fluent in spoken and written English.


• A creative, analytical, and accountable problem solver who is motivated to raise engineering standards and deliver products that are safer, better, robust and more reliable.


• Above all, you’ll want to play a key part in bringing the next generation of Dyson technology to the world.

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.

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 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.