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Our technology detects the earliest signs of failure in critical assets - from high-voltage energy infrastructure to subsea and defense applications - and gives our customers precise, real-time data they can act on.\nWithin our Underwater Security business we develop sensing technologies that help detect and monitor underwater threats. Our solutions include OptiBarrier, designed for immediate, over-the-horizon threat detection, and OptiArray, our low-power optical thin-line towed array for unmanned underwater vehicles and submarines.\nRole Overview\nAs a Hardware Test Engineer at Optics11, you play a key role in ensuring the quality, reliability, and performance of our fiber-optic sensing systems. You develop and execute hardware tests at board and sub-system level, identifying potential issues early and helping our engineers deliver robust, production-ready solutions.\nCombining hands-on hardware engineering with test automation, you build test setups, analyze results, support prototype development, and help transfer testing processes from R&D to production.\nYou will be part of our Sensing Platform Team, working closely with multidisciplinary engineering teams, production, and external partners.\nWhat You'll Do\nHardware Testing & Automation\nDevelop and execute test plans and procedures for electronic boards, assemblies, and sub-systems.\n\nDesign and maintain test setups, fixtures, and jigs for functional, electrical, and optical testing.\n\nPerform environmental, stability, and robustness testing, including thermal cycling, vibration, and EMC/ESD pre-compliance.\n\nDevelop Python-based test automation for instrument control, data logging, and analysis.\n\nDocument test procedures, results, and findings, ensuring clear traceability and reproducibility.\n\nPrototyping & Production Support\nSupport prototype assembly, soldering, rework, cable assembly, and fiber handling and splicing.\n\nDevelop and improve production and Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) setups, procedures, and test jigs.\n\nSupport troubleshooting, repairs, and root-cause investigations during development and production.\n\nMaintain an organized, safe, and well-equipped R&D laboratory, including equipment calibration and materials management.\n\nTechnical Analysis & Continuous Improvement\nAnalyze test results to evaluate hardware performance, identify risks, and support engineering decisions.\n\nInvestigate hardware failures and collaborate with design engineers on corrective actions.\n\nContribute to design-for-test and design-for-manufacturing improvements.\n\nIdentify opportunities to improve test methods, automation, and product reliability.\n\nCollaboration & Delivery\nWork closely with Electronics, Photonics, Embedded Software, Mechanical Engineering, IVVQ, and production teams.\n\nSupport the handover of tested hardware and documentation to integration, validation, and production teams.\n\nIndependently plan and execute assigned activities, communicating progress, risks, and dependencies.\n\nShare technical knowledge, contribute to design reviews, and support continuous improvement across the team.\n\nWhat we offer\nJoin one of Europe’s fastest-growing deep-tech scale-ups.\n\nReal impact: your work directly shapes our growth and success.\n\nA great team in an international organization with colleagues from more than twenty nationalities.\n\nA competitive salary and benefits package.\n\n30 days of holiday per year.\n\nFresh team lunches five times a week, plus regular team activities and company events.\n\nRequirements\nQualifications\nBSc (HBO) in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Mechatronics, Applied Physics, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience.\n\n2+ years of relevant experience in hardware testing, test engineering, prototyping, or lab work on electronic or electro-optical products.\n\nHands-on experience with laboratory instruments such as multimeters, oscilloscopes, power supplies, signal generators, and data loggers; experience with optical power meters is an advantage.\n\nExperience executing test plans and procedures, logging and analyzing measurement data, and documenting results in clear test reports.\n\nGood soldering and rework skills for through-hole and SMD components, including building custom cables and harnesses, and the ability to read schematics, PCB layouts, wiring diagrams, and assembly drawings.\n\nExperience with or good understanding of environmental testing (e.g. temperature, thermal cycling, vibration) and of EMC/ESD principles.\n\nPython skills for test automation, instrument control, and data analysis; experience with LabVIEW, embedded Linux or similar tools is advantageous.\n\nAwareness of ESD-safe working practices and lab safety, including laser safety, or willingness to be trained.\n\nA structured, practical, and hands-on working style, and real enjoyment of testing, finding problems, and getting hardware to work.\n\nGood communication skills in English and a collaborative working style.\n\nEligible for EU/NATO security clearance.\n\nPreferred\nExperience with fiber handling, connector cleaning and inspection, and fusion splicing.\n\nExperience with EMC pre-compliance measurements (e.g. EN 55032/CISPR 32 emissions, IEC 61000-4-x immunity) or environmental test standards (e.g. IEC 60068, MIL-STD-810).\n\nIPC certification (e.g. IPC-A-610 or IPC J-STD-001) or experience with ESD control programs (IEC 61340-5-1).\n\nExperience developing production test setups, test jigs, or programming fixtures, or supporting NPI and production transfer with electronics manufacturing partners.\n\nExperience in multidisciplinary high-tech product development (e.g. sensing, photonics, instrumentation, defence, or subsea).\n\nScreening\nYou will work with clients in the defense and security sectors. Obtaining a Certificate of No Objection issued by the AIVD, the Dutch General Intelligence and Security Service, is mandatory. This means you will need to undergo a security screening. 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