Digital Twin & IoT Lead — Edge-to-Cloud Architect

SmartAvatar BV; Delft; Remote; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

SmartAvatar BV designs and builds Digital Twin and Industrial IoT systems that connect physical environments, data, and intelligent software. This on-site role in Delft focuses on end-to-end engineering from sensors to applications, with a four-year fixed-term contract and potential permanent transition after 18 months.

You will own schema-driven design across construction, smart-city, logistics and industry projects, collaborating with architects, AI engineers, and partners to deliver

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in Digital Twins, IoT, industrial software, data engineering, robotics, embedded systems or edge systems.
• Strong software engineering skills, preferably Python plus at least one other technology stack
• Experience with APIs, data integration, telemetry and event-driven systems
• Experience with relational and/or time-series databases
• Experience with Docker or other containerised environments
• Understanding of cloud and edge computing concepts
• BSc or MSc in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Robotics or a related field — or equivalent industry experience
• Excellent communication skills in English

Responsibilities

• Design Digital Twin architectures representing physical assets, environments and processes
• Model assets, relationships, events, state changes, history and provenance
• Create reusable Digital Twin components for construction, smart-city, logistics and industrial use cases
• Integrate sensors, devices, operational data, APIs and external systems
• Build telemetry, ingestion, transformation, storage and synchronisation pipelines
• Engineer systems that handle unstable connectivity, late data, duplicate events and inconsistent timestamps
• Expose Digital Twin data to APIs, dashboards, AI models and analytics services
• Work across edge and cloud environments
• Define and monitor KPIs for synchronisation, latency, reliability and data quality
• Collaborate with systems architects, AI engineers, software developers and technical partners

Skills

Digital Twins

Python

APIs

MQTT

English communication

Education

BSc/MSc in relevant field

Tools

Docker

MQTT

Python

Job description

SmartAvatar BV designs and builds Digital Twin and Industrial IoT systems that connect physical environments, data, and intelligent software. This on-site role in Delft focuses on end-to-end engineering from sensors to applications, with a four-year fixed-term contract and potential permanent transition after 18 months.

You will own schema-driven design across construction, smart-city, logistics and industry projects, collaborating with architects, AI engineers, and partners to deliver