Design Engineer, Category

Dyson Institute; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Dyson Institute is seeking a Design Engineer, Category, to drive the development of innovative Dyson products across Asia. You will move concepts into prototyping, validation and production while coordinating with Singapore-based teams and China partners.

Strong project ownership and hands-on engineering are essential. This role involves frequent regional travel to support design reviews, validation, and manufacturing milestones, working with multidisciplinary Dyson teams, partners, suppliers

Qualifications

• Practical experience in engineering or product development across multiple stages of the product lifecycle.
• Broad exposure to mechanical design, mechatronics, electronics, software, and systems engineering.

Responsibilities

• Develop products and features from concept through design, validation, and production.
• Translate user and technical needs into clear requirements and deliverables.
• Coordinate activities across multidisciplinary and geographically distributed teams.

Skills

Engineering experience

Multidisciplinary engineering

Prototyping

Manufacturing readiness

Root-cause analysis

Communication

Willingness to travel

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering

Job description

About us

Dyson is a global technology enterprise. We solve the problems others choose to ignore, developing innovative products and technologies that are different, better and designed around real user needs. Our Research, Design and Development teams combine design, engineering and manufacturing expertise to take products from early concept through to production.

About the role

As a Design Engineer, Category, you will support the design, development and delivery of innovative Dyson products and technologies. Combining hands-on engineering with project ownership, you will work from concept generation and prototyping through detailed design, validation, manufacturing readiness and production. You will support the development of a new-to-Dyson product category, working closely with Singapore-based teams and partners in China. The role offers exposure to broad product scope and requires strong coordination across Dyson and partner engineering teams. You will collaborate with multidisciplinary Dyson teams, partners, suppliers and manufacturing sites across Asia. Frequent regional travel is required to support design reviews, technical problem-solving, validation and key manufacturing milestones.

Key responsibilities

• Develop products, systems and features from concept through design, validation, industrialisation and production.
• Translate user, commercial and technical needs into clear requirements, specifications and engineering deliverables.
• Take ownership of defined systems, assemblies, product features or technical work packages.
• Create and evaluate concepts through prototyping, analysis, testing and structured problem-solving.
• Balance performance, user experience, quality, safety, reliability, cost, manufacturability and timing.
• Identify technical risks, investigate failures and support effective root-cause resolution.
• Participate in design reviews, technical reviews, prototype builds and project milestone assessments.
• Coordinate activities, risks, decisions and deliverables across multidisciplinary and geographically distributed teams.
• Communicate technical information and project progress clearly to engineering, project and senior stakeholders.

New Category 5 (NC5) focus

• Support the development of new-category products, systems and features from early definition through manufacturing readiness.
• Create clear specifications and work packages for Partners and track delivery against agreed requirements.
• Review partner-generated designs and engineering evidence, constructively challenging assumptions where required.
• Coordinate product integration, design maturity, technical risks and issue resolution across Dyson and partner teams.

Partner collaboration

• Translate Dyson product requirements and design intent into clear technical briefs and work packages for partners.
• Review partner design proposals, technical evidence and deliverables against agreed requirements.
• Coordinate technical activities and issue resolution across Dyson teams, partners, suppliers and manufacturing sites.
• Support design reviews, prototype builds, validation activities and production trials at partner locations.
• Maintain clear ownership and documentation of technical decisions, deliverables, risks and actions.

Skills and experience

• Practical experience in engineering or product development across multiple stages of the product lifecycle.
• Broad exposure to multidisciplinary engineering, such as mechanical design, mechatronics, electronics, software, systems engineering, testing or manufacturing.
• Hands-on experience with prototyping, engineering testing, test-rig development or product integration.
• Ability to translate requirements into practical, robust and manufacturable engineering solutions.
• Understanding of design for manufacture and assembly principles.
• Experience using engineering evidence and data to support technical decisions.
• Ability to manage defined deliverables, priorities, risks and project milestones.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, including working with external development partners.
• A curious, adaptable and hands-on approach to engineering challenges.

About you

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Electromechanical Engineering, Product Design Engineering, General Engineering, Software Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Systems Engineering or a related discipline.
• Relevant work-based, apprenticeship, industrial or professional engineering experience.
• Experience across more than one stage of product development, from concept to production.
• Demonstrated ownership of a project, product area or technical work package.
• Comfortable working within a partner-led development environment.
• Able to operate effectively across cultures, organisations and time zones.
• Willing and able to travel frequently across Asia and occasionally internationally.
• Comfortable undertaking regular or extended business travel during critical stages of product development, validation and industrialisation.

Travel requirements

This is a regionally connected role requiring frequent travel across Asia and occasional international travel. Travel frequency and duration will vary according to project needs and may include travel at short notice or extended periods at partner and manufacturing locations during critical project phases.

Dyson is an equal opportunity employer.

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.

We know that great minds don’t think alike, and it takes all kinds of minds to make our technology so unique.

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.