Senior Software Engineer - Robotics

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 member of Upstream Robotics’ Software & DevOps team, you’ll design, implement, maintain and extend components of our software platform, support its users, integrate new functionality and proof-of-concept applications. You’ll be collaborating closely with immediate team members, Upstream design and research engineers and Downstream colleagues. This is an opportunity to play a key role in continuously improving the architecture, practices and tooling with the goal of accelerating research and development, closing the gap to production and shortening time-to-market.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the ideation, exploration and proof-of-concept implementation of new feature and product concepts

• Design, implement, test, maintain and evolve functional components and tools of our software platform in modern C++ and Python

• Integrate third-party components and implement new system behaviours

• Help manage the entire high-level software stack, including the operating system, device drivers and user interfaces

• Participate in the design of a distributed system software architecture that is scalable and deployable

• Meticulously document and communicate software requirements, design and implementation

• Mentor and support junior team members in technical and ways-of-working matters and create a positive and engaging team environment

• Drive a culture of software quality and collaboration that can progressively become the norm across the group

About you

Required:

• Degree in engineering or equivalent industry experience

• 3+ years of work experience with robotic, actuated, real-time or simulated physical systems

• Strong object-oriented and functional programming skills in modern C++

• Working knowledge of a scripting language such as Python or Bash

• Good knowledge and hands-on experience with Linux system and toolchains

• Proficient use of development best practices and tools including version control, unit testing, continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD)

• Ability to break down problems, estimate development effort and prioritise work

• Habit of exercising engineering precision

Preferred:

• Experience making real robots or autonomous systems work robustly in the field

• Professional software development experience in a production environment

• Significant contributions to open-source projects

• Experience inspecting, debugging, testing and profiling complex software systems

• Experience with ROS 2, DDS-based middleware systems and messaging frameworks

• Experience with parallel programming and performance optimisation

• Experience with simulation environments such as Isaac Sim, MuJoCo or Genesis and simulation at scale in the cloud

• Experience with ONNXRuntime, TensorRT, CVflow, RKNN or deployment to NPU-based platforms

• Experience with NVIDIA ecosystem (Jetson, NITROS, TAO, DeepStream)

• Experience with profiling and optimizing machine learning models for target hardware

• Experience with Yocto/BitBake based build systems

• Experience with containerised development and deployment

• Experience with behaviour planning and decision making architectures

• Experience with robot perception, motion planning, control, reinforcement or imitation learning or VLMs

Benefits

Dyson Singapore monitors the market to ensure competitive salaries and bonuses. Beyond that, you’ll enjoy a transport allowance and comprehensive medical care and insurance. But financial benefits are just the start of a Dyson career. Professional growth, leadership development and new opportunities abound, driven by regular reviews and dynamic workshops. And with a vibrant culture, the latest devices and a relaxed dress code reflecting our engineering spirit, it’s an exciting team environment geared to fueling and realising ambition.

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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.