Senior Product Systems Architect

Optics11; Netherlands; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Optics11 seeks a Product System Engineer to translate the product roadmap into a verifiable system architecture and maintain technical baselines across the lifecycle. You will own system definition, interfaces, and verification plans while balancing performance, manufacturability, and lifecycle costs.

You will collaborate with Product Management, Subsystem Development, Verification & Validation, and Lifecycle Engineering to align technical decisions with future roadmap evolution.

Qualifications

• MSc or PhD in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Applied Physics, Photonics, Computer Engineering, or related discipline.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in multidisciplinary product development of complex technical systems.
• Demonstrated experience defining system architectures, requirements, interfaces, and technical baselines.
• Demonstrated experience leading technically complex engineering work and driving technical decisions within multidisciplinary product development teams.
• Strong understanding of systems engineering principles, requirements engineering, interface management, technical risk management, and verification planning.
• Experience with requirements management and systems engineering tools (e.g. Polarion, DOORS, Cameo, or equivalent).
• Strong analytical and structured engineering problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Eligible to obtain EU/NATO security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the product system architecture, requirements, interfaces, and technical baselines throughout the product lifecycle.
• Translate product capabilities and roadmap objectives into clear, complete, verifiable, and traceable system requirements.
• Allocate requirements across subsystems and ensure subsystem solutions collectively deliver the intended system capabilities.
• Define system-level verification strategy and criteria, and support integration, verification, qualification, and product release activities.
• Lead system-level technical decisions and trade-offs across performance, reliability, manufacturability, cost, risk, and lifecycle considerations.
• Identify and resolve cross-subsystem technical issues, dependencies, interface conflicts, and architectural risks.
• Provide technical leadership across multidisciplinary engineering teams, driving alignment, systems thinking, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Systems engineering

Requirements engineering

Interface management

Technical risk management

MBSE

Education

MSc/PhD in relevant field

Tools

Polarion

DOORS

Cameo

Job description

Optics11 seeks a Product System Engineer to translate the product roadmap into a verifiable system architecture and maintain technical baselines across the lifecycle. You will own system definition, interfaces, and verification plans while balancing performance, manufacturability, and lifecycle costs.

You will collaborate with Product Management, Subsystem Development, Verification & Validation, and Lifecycle Engineering to align technical decisions with future roadmap evolution.