Senior Robotics Hardware Engineer, NPI

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

As a Senior Mechatronics Engineer, you will be focussed on generating and developing innovative concepts within a project team. You’ll be collaborating closely with immediate team members, other Upstream design and research engineers and Downstream colleagues to create and develop new features, technologies, product formats and business cases for projects in our portfolio. 

As a Senior Mechatronics Engineer, You Are Expected To

• Devise, design and build innovative mechatronic solutions enabling new product features and formats
• Contribute to the ideation, exploration and proof-of-concept implementation of new feature and product concepts
• Meticulously document and communicate engineering requirements, design and implementation details
• Work with focus, attention to detail and consideration of system-wide implications
• Deliver tasks effectively to specification, on agreed time and with little assistance, but know when to seek clarifications, help or feedback
• Communicate with the wider team proactively, minding efficiency and quality of conversations
• Mentor and support junior team members in technical and ways-of-working matters and create a positive and engaging team environment
  
  
  

Required

About you

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Robotics or a related discipline, or equivalent industry experience
• 3+ years of work experience designing robotic or articulated mechanisms
• Ability to independently progress through ideation, conceptual design, choice of optimal actuation principles, actuator dimensioning, part sourcing, GD&T, 3D CAD modelling and drafting, FEA, fabrication and assembly, testing and troubleshooting
• Experience integrating control electronics and sensors
• Basic programming skills in C/C++ or Python
• Ability to break down problems, estimate engineering effort and prioritise work
• Habit of exercising engineering precision
  
  
  

Beneficial

• Experience making robots or autonomous systems work robustly in the field
• Experience with product design and development
• Experience with design of experiments (DOE)
• Experience with Linux system, shell scripting, version control and/or ROS 2
  
  
  

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.