UK's Dyson to open software lab in Philippines, create 400 jobs

British technology company Dyson Ltd. is planning to put up a new dedicated software laboratory in the Philippines as part of its £2.75-billion investment plan in new technologies in the next five years.

In a virtual event, Dyson chief operating officer Scott Maguire announced the tech firm’s plan to create a new dedicated software hub in Alabang.

The software hub is seen to create 400 job opportunities for highly-skilled software engineers in the Philippines over the next three years.

Maguire said the new center builds on Dyson’s existing engineering team in the Philippines and its advanced manufacturing facilities in Calamba, Laguna, established in 2016, which employs 600 people and produces 13 million “Dyson Hyperdymium” motors a year.

“The Philippines is home to bright, young engineers who share Dyson’s ambition to develop technologies for the future. Dyson has been growing in the Philippines for this reason and it is a nation that clearly celebrates both engineers and technology,” Maguire said.

“We will continue to invest in the Philippines and look forward to having more highly skilled Filipino engineers join our ranks to develop and manufacture exciting new technologies for the future, which will be used all around the world,” he added.

The software lab in the Philippines will form part of Dyson’s global Research, Design and Development team, which spans USA, UK, Shanghai, Singapore and Malaysia.

Roles in the software lab will include the following:

• Embedded Software Engineers
• Automation Test Engineers
• Scrum Masters
• Product Owners
• Program Managers
• Release Train Engineers
• Team Leaders

The company said the new software lab reflects its goal to double its portfolio of products and enter entirely new fields by 2025, as it accelerates research and development into robotics, software, AI, and machine learning.

It said Dyson engineers and scientists are already creating a new generation of intelligent machines which understand their environment and their users, autonomously adjusting their performance.  —Ted Cordero/KBK, GMA News