1. Overview

At Dyson we are encouraged to think differently, challenge convention and be unafraid to make mistakes. We’re creative, collaborative, practical and enthusiastic. But most of all we’re hugely passionate about what we do. Dyson offers a unique opportunity for talented individuals to invent, design and develop market leading products for the global market. By working in our world-class research, design and development department, these individuals have the opportunity to work alongside leading technical specialists and highly motivated creative people to create products which fulfil our ambition of being truly different and better than our competitors.

We are looking for an enthusiastic Lead Engineers to join our growing Systems Engineering & Verification Team.

2. Detailed Job Scope (Roles & Responsibilities)

• The lead engineer will operate as a competent practitioner of the systems engineering & verification team.
• The lead engineer shall work at the core of our product development process and use established systems engineering tools and methods to bring clarity from ambiguity.
• Translate our product vision into clear and concise user, business, and product requirements.
• Create and manage the verification strategy to ensure traceability on test cases to product requirements.
• Identify the test cases and methodologies to verify the requirements.
• Identify the test method required for test cases to perform design and product verification.
• Using MBSE methods to develop product architectures, decomposing the problem into digestible functional, physical, logical, and behavioural chunks.
• Creating unambiguous useable requirements for engineers to design to.
• Build and coordinate system wide simulations to help us balance requirements early.
• Work collaboratively with all our engineering teams to clarify work packages, manage trade-off studies, and resolve engineering issues.
• Lead and coach a growing core team of Systems Engineers of all levels of expertise. Coaching & Mentoring shall exist at all levels and in all directions within the team as it grows.
• Driving the Systems Engineering process and ethos into the wider company, educating other RDD employees in Systems Engineering to resolve technical challenges
• Following a Leader-Leader mentality working as an emancipated team.

3. Qualifications

• A first degree in mechanical / mechatronics / electrical / electronic / software engineering.
• Experience in Systems Engineering processes and applications with a minimum of 6 years’ experience in a product development environment.
• Demonstrable experience in performing systems breakdown, architecture definition and using functional analysis techniques resulting in well written unambiguous requirements.
• Capable of working in an agile and autonomous manner.
• A good grasp of MBSE including experience building SysML models using Systems Engineering Modelling Software
• Additionally, experience with Requirements Management Tools and Product Lifecycle Management tools is desirable but not essential
• A clear, logical thinker with attention to detail and an appreciation for engineering fundamentals and critical analysis.

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.