Senior Engineer, Product Performance

Dyson Institute; Johor Bahru; On-site; MYR 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Dyson Institute is seeking engineers to join the Technology Development team, focused on the Product Performance group. You will quantify and optimize how well Dyson hair appliances dry and style, using modelling tools and experimental data to drive performance improvements.

Responsibilities include designing tests, creating predictive models, and collaborating with a project team to deliver performance aligned with product vision, while using English for clear communication across global teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical/Mechatronics Engineering or equivalent.
• Strong fundamentals in engineering, measurement and statistics.
• Experience with data analysis tools (Minitab, MATLAB, Excel).
• Good written and verbal communication in English.

Responsibilities

• Identify factors driving performance metrics.
• Use modelling tools to optimize/predict performance.
• Analyse data from experiments/assessments with rigor.
• Design tests and plans to identify and optimize performance.
• Write scripts/Excel/Minitab analyses for predictive models.
• Propose design mitigations to meet performance targets.
• Collaborate with project team to deliver optimized hair styling and drying performance.

Skills

Engineering fundamentals

Statistical analysis

Data tools (Minitab)

Data tools (MATLAB)

Data tools (Excel)

Written & verbal English

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical/Mechatronics Engineering

Tools

Minitab

MATLAB

Excel

Job description

About us

At Dyson we are encouraged to think differently, challenge convention and be unafraid to make mistakes. We’re creative, collaborative, practical and enthusiastic. Dyson offers a unique opportunity for skilled individuals to invent, design and develop market leading products for the global market. By working in our world class research, design and development (RDD) department, these professionals have the opportunity to work alongside leading technical specialists and highly motivated creative people to create products which fulfil our vision of being truly different and better than our competitors.

About the role

The Technology Development department comprises of diverse groups of curious, world class engineering specialists. We are experts in our fields, and we ensure Dyson products are on the edge of what’s possible. The department encompasses specialist groups across different disciplines – Product Performance, Acoustics, Fluid Dynamics, Structural Dynamics, Materials. This role resides within the Product Performance group, which provides the technical analysis of hair appliance product performance. Such quantifying and optimising how well the product dries and styles hair.

Main Duties/Responsibilities:

• Identify the fundamental factors that contribute to the desired performance metric.


• Utilize appropriate modelling tools to make optimization / or predictions.


• Analyse and make recommendation from experimental tests / analytical assessments of data, analysis should hold up to a high standard of technical rigor.


• Design tests and corresponding test plans that efficiently seek to identify and optimize performance and stays authentic to the customers experience of performance.


• Write scripts / Excel / Minitab analysis to create predictive models for performance, have the technical know how to assess the suitability of your chosen approach and provide clear recommendations to your audience.


• Propose design mitigations, recommendations to achieve performance targets.


• Collaborate with a project team to deliver optimized hair style and drying performance in line with product vision.

About you

• At least a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical/Mechatronics Engineering or equivalent.


• Ideally 3+ years’ experience in product design and development.


• Strong working knowledge of engineering fundamentals, measurement analysis and statistical analysis. Competency in Minitab, MATLAB or Excel or other data acquisition/processing tool.


• Some competencies in the use and application of CAD/CAE tools in general is preferred.


• Reasonable experience in statistical modelling such as multiple regression modeling is preferred.


• Demonstrate strong written and verbal communication skills in English.


• Proficiently communicate ideas and concepts, frequently tailoring communication to suit different levels. Ability to persuade and influence others as needed, typically within a project team.

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.