Senior System Validation Engineer - Edge & Cloud

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

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