Building the future of engineering

Motors, batteries, and power systems have always fascinated me. They are an intricate blend of mechanical, thermal, aero-acoustic, and electromagnetic design. I originally joined Dyson in 2014 as a summer intern in the Motors and Power Systems Development team. What struck me then still holds true now: we start with a blank sheet of paper and a vision to develop technologies to achieve the ‘impossible’. Every decision we make shapes the future.

After my internship, I returned in 2015 as a graduate engineer. A year later, a secondment in research helped me realise where I really wanted to focus my career. Since then, I’ve grown from Lead Engineer to Manager, and today, I’m a Principal Engineer within the Technical Research team. I work across early-stage motor and power system projects, managing the design through to handover, helping set our technology roadmap, allocating resources, and leading improvements in how we work.

One of the most defining moments of my career was being selected to work on the Dyson CoVent Ventilator project at the height of the pandemic. In just weeks, we pulled together a solution under pressure. It was a masterclass in decision-making, agility, and collaboration, and it reshaped how I lead projects today.

Most recently, I handed over a top-secret research project to our development teams after more than a year of work. Taking it from concept to prototype and achieving performance levels we hadn’t seen before was a proud milestone, made possible by the exceptional engineers I worked alongside. I even got to visit Singapore and Malaysia to meet the manufacturing teams and suppliers that take our designs to mass production. This was an amazing experience and one I will never forget.

My technical depth has grown across disciplines but so has my ability to present complex ideas, lead teams, and mentor early-career engineers. My advice? Learn from the people around you, especially those in roles you aspire to. Understand what it took for them to get there; that insight is invaluable in charting your own path.

At Dyson, you're not just building machines — you're building the future of engineering.