Software Team Leader

Location:

Arzignano (36071) – Italy

Salary:

Competitive

Type:

Permanent

Main Industry:

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Advertiser:

Dana Incorporated

Job ID:

132684961

Posted On:

07 February 2026

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 fullfil stakeholder’s requirements.
•    Review and maintain SW related workprodcuts 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.

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