Lead Firmware Engineer

About Us

Dyson is a global technology enterprise focused on redefining industries through innovation and cutting-edge technology. As part of our Electrical Power Systems team, we develop advanced Battery Management Systems (BMS) for Dyson’s battery-operated consumer electronics products, ensuring high reliability, safety, and performance. If you’re passionate about firmware, embedded systems, and driving new technologies, this role offers you the opportunity to leave a lasting impact on Dyson’s future innovations.

About the Role

As a Lead Firmware Engineer - Battery Management Systems, you will lead the design, development, validation, and implementation of BMS firmware and software for Dyson’s consumer electronics products. Collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, including mechanical, hardware, software, quality, and test professionals, you’ll contribute across the full product lifecycle-spanning EVT (Engineering Validation Test), DVT (Design Validation Test), and PVT (Production Validation Test) phases.

This role demands hands-on technical expertise in BMS firmware development, safety-critical software, and cross-functional collaboration across borders.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and develop robust battery management system firmware for high-performance consumer electronics.
• Implement low-level drivers, middleware, and application layers on microcontrollers for battery systems using protocols like SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, ADC, and DMA.
• Design algorithms for State of Charge (SOC) and State of Health (SOH) calculations, battery cell balancing, fault diagnostics, and event handling.
• Comply with international standards such as ISO 26262, IEC 62133, and UL 1642 for functional safety, reliability, and quality.
• Define and execute verification and validation strategies, ensuring product compliance with performance, safety, and reliability standards.
• Lead functional, environmental, and durability testing for BMS software across EVT, DVT, and PVT phases.
• Conduct in-depth failure analysis, root-cause investigation, and design optimization during validation cycles.
• Work closely with software, hardware, mechanical design, quality, and test teams to ensure system integration and product readiness.
• Collaborate with cell suppliers and equipment vendors to optimize testing tools, methodologies, and system validation.
• Mentor engineers in software development, testing protocols, and project execution to nurture technical expertise and professional development.
• Drive collaboration and knowledge-sharing initiatives, fostering consistency across Dyson’s global engineering teams.

About You

To excel in this role, you’ll need a combination of strong technical expertise, leadership ability, and innovation. You’ll thrive in fast-paced and challenging environments, leveraging your skills in embedded systems firmware development and cross-functional collaborations.

Essential Skills & Qualifications

• Education:
  • BEng, MSc, or PhD in Electrical, Electronics, Embedded Systems Engineering, or a related discipline.
  • Strong academic background focused on embedded firmware design, battery systems, and technical problem-solving.
• Experience:
  • Preferably 6+ years of professional experience in BMS firmware/software development, particularly in consumer electronics, automotive, or aerospace industries.
  • Proven expertise in embedded systems programming for battery systems using microcontrollers (TI TMS570, LTC6813, ARM Cortex, STM32 series).
  • Hands-on experience in cell testing, battery degradation analysis, state estimation, and robust system design for lithium-ion technologies.
• Technical Proficiency:
  • In-depth knowledge of embedded protocols (SPI, CAN, UART, ADC), battery communication interfaces, and real-time operating systems (e.g., FreeRTOS, Micrium uC/OS).
  • Skilled in functional safety standards (ISO 26262), fault management in BMS firmware development, and compliance standards (IEC 62133, UL 1642).
  • Familiarity with BMS hardware platforms and tools such as TI BQ Studio, MATLAB, and Simulink.
  • Ability to develop bootloaders, memory management, and scalable modular software components.
  • Programming proficiency: Embedded C, Python, Ruby, Make.
• Collaboration & Leadership:
  • Experienced in working with cross-functional teams spanning software, hardware, quality, and mechanical engineering globally.
  • Strong communication skills to articulate technical insights to a wide range of stakeholders, including teams, suppliers, and senior management.

Desirable Skills

• Experience in connected BMS systems involving BLE/Wi-Fi interfaces for consumer products.
• Experience in working with RISC-V microcontrollers.
• Knowledge of agile development cycles and test automation frameworks.
• Expertise in implementing machine learning algorithms for predictive diagnostics in battery systems.

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. We are looking for individuals who wish to invent, design and develop 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 other leading technical specialists and highly motivated creative people, to develop products which fulfill our ambition of being truly different and better than our competitors.

Dyson monitors the market to ensure competitive salaries and pension contributions. Beyond that, you’ll also enjoy a profit-related bonus, generous leave and life insurance. However, financial benefits are only the start of a Dyson career. Rapid professional growth, leadership development and new opportunities abound.

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.