Senior System Test & Validation Engineer

Optics11 Life; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Job summary

Optics11 Life seeks a Senior System Test & Validation Engineer to lead system-level verification and validation for multidisciplinary products. You will translate product understanding, customer use cases, and risks into validation strategies, test setups, and campaigns, coordinating across IVVQ teams.

This senior role combines hands-on testing, design thinking, and investigative validation to ensure critical customer workflows before release, with collaboration across Product, Systems

Qualifications

• Candidates have 7+ years in system testing, verification & validation, integration testing, or product qualification.
• Experience validating complex multidisciplinary products blending hardware and software.
• Strong system-level test strategy, risk-based testing, and requirements verification knowledge.
• Ability to translate requirements and customer use cases into validation approaches.
• Designing system test setups and representative environments.
• Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis across subsystem boundaries.
• Working knowledge of Linux and networking.
• Experience with automated testing, CI/CD, and modern engineering workflows.
• Experience with requirements traceability and verification evidence.
• Strong English communication and a collaborative working style.
• Eligible for required EU/NATO/security screening or clearance, where applicable.
• Nice to have: Python for test automation, HIL or automated system-level testing, edge/cloud products, and testing across environments.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive system-level verification and validation for multidisciplinary products.
• Develop validation strategies, test setups, and test campaigns.
• Validate complete systems combining hardware, software, edge computing, and cloud components.
• Collaborate with Product, Systems Engineering, Software, Embedded, Hardware, Algorithms, Operations, and Manufacturing.
• Operate as a senior hands-on IC with test design, technical investigation, and practical validation.

Skills

System-level thinking

Test design

Troubleshooting

Root-cause analysis

English communication

Collaboration

Linux knowledge

Networking knowledge

CI/CD

Automated testing

Requirements traceability

Education

BSc/MSc in Systems Engineering/Electrical/Software/Embedded Systems/Physics

Tools

Jira

Polarion

Job description

Senior System Test & Validation Engineer at Optics11, you are responsible for defining and driving system-level verification and validation for complex multidisciplinary products.

You develop a strong understanding of the product, customer use cases, system architecture, operating environment, and technical risks, and translate these into effective validation strategies, test setups, and test campaigns.

The systems you validate combine sensing hardware, embedded software, Edge computing, networking, cloud software, data processing, algorithms, and customer-facing applications. Your role is therefore focused on validating the complete system and ensuring that critical customer workflows work reliably before release.

You work closely with Product, Systems Engineering, Software, Embedded, Hardware, Algorithms, Operations, Manufacturing, and other IVVQ engineers.

This is a senior hands-on individual contributor role, combining system-level thinking, test design, technical investigation, and practical validation.

Qualifications

• BSc or MSc in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Embedded Systems, Physics, or a related technical discipline.

• 7+ years of relevant experience in system testing, verification & validation, integration testing, or product qualification.

• Experience validating complex multidisciplinary products combining hardware and software.

• Strong understanding of system-level test strategy, risk-based testing, requirements verification, and product qualification.

• Experience translating requirements and customer use cases into practical validation approaches.

• Experience designing system test setups and representative test environments.

• Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills across subsystem boundaries.

• Working knowledge of Linux and networking.

• Experience with automated testing, CI/CD, and modern engineering workflows.

• Experience with requirements traceability and verification evidence.

• Strong communication skills in English and a collaborative working style.

• Eligible for required EU/NATO/security screening or clearance, where applicable.

Nice to have

• Python experience for test automation, analysis, or tooling.

• Hardware-in-the-Loop or automated system-level testing experience.

• Experience with Edge systems, Docker, or cloud-connected products.

• Experience with environmental, reliability, lifetime, or mechanical testing.

• Experience with industrial sensing, condition monitoring, photonics, energy systems, or similar technologies.

• Experience with FAT, commissioning, or field validation.

• Experience with requirements-management tools such as Jira, Polarion.

Why Join Us?

• Join one of Europe’s most promising deep-tech scale-ups.

• Work on complex multidisciplinary products combining photonics, hardware, software, cloud, and algorithms.

• Shape how system-level validation is done within a growing R&D organization.

• Competitive salary and benefits package.

• Regular team activities, company events, and fresh team lunches.