Senior Product Systems Architect & MBSE Leader

Optics11; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Optics11 is seeking a Product System Engineer to translate roadmaps into verifiable system architectures and baselines. You will own the system definition, interfaces, and verification approach across multidisciplinary teams, balancing performance, manufacturability, cost, and lifecycle considerations.

You will collaborate with Product Management, Development, V&V, and Lifecycle Engineering to align decisions with the roadmap and future evolution.

Qualifications

• 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 (Polarion, DOORS, Cameo, or equivalent).
• Excellent written and verbal English communication.

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 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

Analytical thinking

Structured engineering problem-solving

English communication skills

Education

MSc or PhD in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Applied Physics, Photonics, Computer Engineering, or a related engineering discipline

Tools

Polarion

DOORS

Cameo

Job description

Optics11 is seeking a Product System Engineer to translate roadmaps into verifiable system architectures and baselines. You will own the system definition, interfaces, and verification approach across multidisciplinary teams, balancing performance, manufacturability, cost, and lifecycle considerations.

You will collaborate with Product Management, Development, V&V, and Lifecycle Engineering to align decisions with the roadmap and future evolution.