Reiden
Team Leader Embedded HW Development (m/f/d)
- 29 October 2026
- 100%
- Permanent position
- German (Native language)
About the job
Since 1964, Schweizer Electronic AG has been developing, producing and distributing forward-looking products and services for safety in rail transport. In our two business areas, warning systems and level crossings, we offer versatile and exciting tasks and are always looking for talents to jointly drive our innovations forward. We develop and produce our systems in Switzerland and distribute them worldwide through our own branches and sales partners. Around 240 employees work for our group across Europe.
Team Leader Embedded HW Development (m/f/d) 100%
Hardware Engineer
Reiden
To strengthen our HW development team in the Business Unit Occupational Safety, we are looking for a technically skilled personality who combines team leadership, architectural expertise and safety-oriented electronics development.
Your tasks
- Technical and personnel leadership (5-10 employees), coaching and further development of the HW development team as well as active participation in architecture, development and review activities
- Ensuring targeted development from requirements to series maturity. Responsibility for priorities, technical decisions, risk management as well as timely, cost- and quality-compliant achievement of project goals
- Deriving the hardware architecture from system requirements and system architecture as well as defining a modular HW platform for safety-relevant products
- Technical responsibility for the electronics development of analogue and digital assemblies including design reviews, verification and configuration management
- Definition and implementation of safety and diagnostic concepts for products up to SIL 4, taking into account relevant CENELEC and cyber security requirements
- Ensuring industrialisation through production-oriented development, suitable test concepts and successful transfer to series production
- Technical sub-project management as well as close cooperation with system engineering, embedded software, safety, production and external partners
- Coordination and evaluation of evidence, laboratory tests, conformity assessments as well as supplier products and assemblies
Your profile
- University degree in electrical/system engineering, electronics or a comparable field
- Several years of experience in embedded HW development as well as HW and platform architectures
- System & requirements engineering as well as verification and technical proof
- Sound knowledge in analogue and digital electronics as well as embedded systems
- Operational experience in the field of functional safety (SIL), ideally in the rail environment
- Knowledge of secure communication systems and cyber security is an advantage
- Competence in risk analyses FMEA / FMEDA
- Experience in industrialisation and series transfer
- Leadership experience as well as project and sub-project management
- Hands-on mentality, high initiative and implementation strength; ability to set priorities, make decisions and successfully lead teams to the goal even under ambitious deadlines
Outside the block times from 08:30 to 11:30, we offer flexible working hours during which you can organise your time freely.
Mobility (Parking)Are provided free of charge next to the company building in Reiden.
Further EducationThe company supports its employees according to their abilities and performance within the framework of operational possibilities. It financially contributes to course and training fees if the further education is in the interest of the company.
Service AnniversaryAt 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 and 35 years of service, you will receive a thank you gift.
Leisure and SportTo help you stay healthy, our fitness room and showers are available to you.
Employee EventsThere are four employee information sessions per year. In summer, the company sponsors a barbecue event. At the end of the year, a Christmas party is organised for the employees.
Daniela Brugger
Industriestasse 3
6260 Reiden
062 749 07 07
Further information about this interesting position is provided by Mr Marc Hoffmann, Head of Development, Tel. +41 62 749 06 80.
Interested?
Please send your complete application documents including salary expectations in electronic form to Ms Daniela Brugger, Head of Human Resources.