Dr. David Leuenberger

Department Head R&D at Siemens Mobility | Embedded Systems for Rail, TCN/TCMS, R&D Management

Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

About

Experience

  • Head of Train Control Systems and Products at Siemens
    Mar 2025 - Present · 1 yr 4 mos

    Lead of the local R&D department for the development of safety critical embedded components for train control systems up to SIL4. Personal management and technical supervision of the product development. Project and program management of the R&D projects.

  • duagon (8 yrs 9 mos)
    • Director Systems Engineering
      Mar 2022 - Feb 2025 · 3 yrs

      Head of the Systems Engineering department. Lead of 30 engineers organized in three local teams at different international sites of duagon. Responible for the engineering and project activities for software application development and system integration in the area of rail vehicles and other mission critical applications.

    • Research And Development Manager
      Jul 2020 - Feb 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos

      Lead of the R&D team of the Australian business division of duagon AG (9 engineers). Embedded software and hardware development for I/O controllers.. Responsible for product management, product strategy and R&D project management.

    • Projectmanager Hardware Engineering
      Jun 2016 - Jun 2020 · 4 yrs 1 mo

      Projectlead and hardware engineering in development of emebedded systems for train communication networks.

  • Research And Teaching Assistant at ETH Zurich
    2011 - 2016 · 5 yrs

    - Modelbased design of power electronic converters - Implementation and experimental measurements of power electronic converters - Research project with partner from industry - Scientific publications and presentations

  • SW Development Engineer at Bombardier Transportation Schweiz AG
    2009 - Apr 2011 · 2 yrs 4 mos

    Business unit propulsion control for electro locomotives, responsible for the development and maintainance of the control software of the power electronic converters