Senior Engineering Manager - Battery Systems

Dyson; Singapore; On-site; SGD 200,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Dyson is seeking a leader to head the Battery Systems organisation in Singapore. You will define the technical direction for safe, robust and competitive battery-powered products, covering packs, cells, BMS hardware, charging, wireless charging and system integration.

The role demands strong architecture judgment, risk management and supplier engagement to drive performance and manufacturability. You will build and mentor a high-caliber team, balance safety with cost and schedule, and ensure

Qualifications

• Experience leading battery systems organisations and multidisciplinary teams.
• Proven ability to translate strategy into capability plans and priorities.
• Strong background in architecture, requirements and risk management.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Battery Systems organisation in Singapore, spanning battery-pack engineering, BMS hardware, power electronics, charging and system integration.
• Set the organisation vision and translate battery strategy into capability plans, resourcing and leadership development.
• Establish clear decision rights, workflows and prioritisation to deliver safe, robust battery products on time.
• Ensure safety, compliance, and engineering quality through evidence-based design reviews and governance.
• Partner with safety, quality and category teams for certification evidence and issue resolution.
• Drive platform reuse and modularity while addressing product-specific safety and performance needs.

Skills

Leadership

Battery systems

System architecture

Safety engineering

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical governance

Job description

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.

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

Lead the Battery Systems organisation in Singapore, setting the technical direction, engineering standards and delivery model for safe, robust and competitive battery-powered products. The role combines organisational leadership with deep system-level engineering accountability across battery packs, cells, BMS hardware, charging, wireless charging, product integration, supplier/JDM delivery and lifecycle quality.

This leader will turn complex and sometimes ambiguous product needs into clear architecture, evidence-based decisions and dependable execution. They will build a resilient team, challenge weak assumptions, protect safety and compliance, and ensure that technical choices remain balanced across performance, runtime, thermal behaviour, reliability, manufacturability, cost and programme timing.

Key responsibilities

People and organisational leadership

• Lead, coach and develop a multidisciplinary Battery Systems organisation spanning battery-pack engineering, BMS hardware, power electronics, charging, wireless charging, system integration, verification and technical supplier engagement.
• Set a clear organisation vision and translate the battery strategy into capability plans, resource priorities, hiring, succession, technical leadership and sustainable workload allocation.
• Build a high-trust, high-accountability culture where engineers share evidence, challenge constructively, make risks visible and take ownership through to verified closure.
• Develop senior engineers and technical leaders who can make sound architecture decisions, lead critical reviews, mentor others and represent Battery Systems confidently across the business.
• Identify single points of dependency, skills gaps and capacity constraints early; establish credible recovery, cross-training and external-partner plans rather than relying on individual heroics.
• Create clear objectives, decision rights and operating rhythms across teams, with transparent prioritisation when demand exceeds capacity.

Battery systems strategy and architecture

• Own and evolve the battery-systems technical strategy across product categories, including pack architecture, cell and chemistry choices, BMS platforms, charger architecture, wireless charging, power budgets, interfaces and technology roadmaps.
• Lead system trade-offs across safety, performance, runtime, thermal behaviour, ageing, reliability, user experience, size, weight, cost, serviceability and manufacturing readiness.
• Ensure architecture decisions are supported by requirements, modelling, tolerance analysis, test evidence and clearly documented assumptions, limitations and residual risks.
• Drive platform reuse and modularity where this strengthens quality and speed, while preventing inappropriate reuse where product duty cycles, safety needs or interfaces differ.
• Maintain forward-looking awareness of lithium-ion and emerging chemistries, battery electronics, charging technologies, wireless power, semiconductor roadmaps and supplier capability.

Technical governance, safety and engineering quality

• Provide senior technical governance across battery packs, BMS electronics and firmware, chargers and wireless power systems, including critical design, architecture, verification and release reviews.
• Ensure product safety is designed in through robust protection concepts, fault analysis, abuse and lifecycle considerations, thermal controls, safe-state behaviour, traceable requirements and objective validation evidence.
• Own the quality of technical decision-making, ensuring teams distinguish facts from assumptions, define decision criteria, close evidence gaps and elevate unresolved safety, compliance or delivery risks promptly.
• Partner with Product Safety, Quality, Compliance and category engineering teams to support safety reviews, risk registers, certification evidence, deviations, concessions, change control and technical approvals.
• Ensure strong engineering discipline in requirements management, interface control, configuration management, design documentation, review records, Jira/Confluence/PLM traceability and lessons learned.
• Lead or support complex root-cause investigations involving field, factory or validation failures, bringing together product data, production evidence