Senior Energy Systems Lead – Integrated HW, SW & AI

Optics11; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Team activities

Company events

Fresh team lunches

Job summary

Optics11 in Amsterdam is seeking a System Lead Energy to own the system architecture and ensure integration of our energy monitoring products across lifecycle. You translate customer needs into system requirements and guide decisions across hardware, software, sensing, AI, and data processing.

This senior hands-on role combines system thinking, test design, validation and root-cause analysis, collaborating with Product, Systems Engineering, Software, Embedded, Hardware, and Operations to deliver

Qualifications

• Degree in Systems Engineering or related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• At least 7 years of engineering experience with multidisciplinary hardware/software.
• Proven ownership of system requirements, architecture and interfaces.
• Strong depth in embedded or software systems spanning electronics, sensing, networking, algorithms.
• Experience defining data flows and processing chains affecting system performance.
• Hands-on integration and troubleshooting using measurements, logs and experiments.
• Experience with requirements traceability, configuration management and risk assessment.
• Clear English communication and independent ownership; occasional field visits.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain system requirements, architecture, interfaces with traceability.
• Lead cross-disciplinary design decisions balancing performance, reliability, security, and cost.
• Define data exchange requirements, data quality, timing and compatibility.
• Identify risks and failure modes early using prototypes and experiments.
• Drive system integration across hardware, software, AI and data processing.
• Represent Energy requirements in the OptimAE platform and ensure configuration compatibility.
• Lead complex investigations and root-cause analysis for product improvements.
• Collaborate with IVVQ on testability, verification and release readiness.
• Guide deployment improvements, diagnostics and serviceability with clear documentation.

Skills

System requirements

Architecture design

Embedded software

Data processing

Root-cause analysis

Technical leadership

Documentation

Education

Systems Engineering degree

Tools

Python

Docker

Linux

System integration tools

Job description

Optics11 in Amsterdam is seeking a System Lead Energy to own the system architecture and ensure integration of our energy monitoring products across lifecycle. You translate customer needs into system requirements and guide decisions across hardware, software, sensing, AI, and data processing.

This senior hands-on role combines system thinking, test design, validation and root-cause analysis, collaborating with Product, Systems Engineering, Software, Embedded, Hardware, and Operations to deliver