Software Team Leader

Position summary

The Software Team Leader will play a significant role to enhance our R&D inverter software development department, with the main role of managing a team of Engineers designing and developing embedded software for inverters within Dana TM4 commercial vehicles business unit in Arzignano (VI).

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead a SW team with important knowledge and competence in base software and application software, deputed to low voltage inverters which is the core business of the plant, as well as e-motor for the same business.
• Actively participate in planning activities according to the different project to be released.
• Support the development and maintenance of software modules and components (e.g. Communication, Safety Relevant SW, Interfaces with other application algorithms).
• Monitor and ensure that the design and development of the embedded software follows the R&D guidelines (processes, best practices and tool chain), and complies with the applicable regulations and reference standards.
• Monitor on time, on cost, on quality KPIs with respect to SW development.
• Manage and interface with third party SW developers.
• Being the proxy of the low voltage inverter SW team with respect to the Global SW Team and cooperating with them for a common development strategy.
• Promote synergies with the system engineering and hardware team for an efficient hardware-software interface management to fulfil stakeholder's requirements.
• Review and maintain SW related workproducts such as functional block schemes, SW modules functionality description and V&V testing specification.
• Support V&V team during product validation.
• Support Manufacturing team to proper transit to production

Education and Qualifications

• Degree in Electronics or Mechatronics Engineering, Computer Science or similar.
• 5+ years of experience in embedded C development.
• 3+ years of experience leading a SW development team
• Knowledge of micro-controller architectures (preferred Aurix), main IDEs and tools for embedded software development and unit testing.
• Good spoken and written English language.

Skills and Competencies

• Electronic/Mechatronic engineering or Computer Science background.
• Excellent knowledge of C programming language.
• Management skills of an engineering team and habit to work in team.
• Ability to work with other global teams for cross-platform projects.
• Experience with software versioning (GIT preferred)
• Habit to follow software guidelines (e.g. MISRA C).
• Availability for short travels.
• Attention to details, product maintenance and analytical skills.
• Proactive attitude, results orientated, attitude for problem solving, curiosity.

Considered as a plus:

• Experience with RTOS based software design and development.
• Experience with Agile methodologies such as Scrum and Knaban and tools (Jira preferred)
• Experience with Model Based Design
• Knowledge of CI/CD and DevOps Principles.
• Knowledge of Python, Matlab, Simulink.
• Knowledge of CAN protocols like CANopen, SAE J1939, UDS, CCP.
• Knowledge of power electronics converters.
• Awareness of functional safety aspects and industry standards (e.g. ISO13849, ISO26262).
• Mastery of development processes (e.g., ASPICE, CMMI) and software V-model lifecycle.