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Your primary objective is to translate the Product Roadmap into a coherent, feasible, and verifiable system architecture that enables successful product realization.\nYou own the system definition, system architecture, allocated requirements, interfaces, system-level verification intent, and technical baselines of the product. Working across multiple engineering disciplines, you ensure subsystem solutions collectively realize the intended system capabilities while balancing technical performance, manufacturability, reliability, cost, and lifecycle considerations.\nYou work closely with the Product Manager, Product Owner, Subsystem Development teams, Product Integration, Verification & Validation, and Lifecycle Engineering to ensure technical decisions support successful product development and future roadmap evolution.\nKey Responsibilities:\nDefine and maintain the product system architecture, requirements, interfaces, and technical baselines throughout the product lifecycle.\n\nTranslate product capabilities and roadmap objectives into clear, complete, verifiable, and traceable system requirements.\n\nAllocate requirements across subsystems and ensure subsystem solutions collectively deliver the intended system capabilities.\n\nDefine system-level verification strategy and criteria, and support integration, verification, qualification, and product release activities.\n\nLead system-level technical decisions and trade-offs across performance, reliability, manufacturability, cost, risk, and lifecycle considerations.\n\nIdentify and resolve cross-subsystem technical issues, dependencies, interface conflicts, and architectural risks.\n\nProvide technical leadership across multidisciplinary engineering teams, driving alignment, systems thinking, and continuous improvement.\n\nTechnical Ownership & Scope:\nOwns the system architecture, requirements, interfaces, technical baselines, and system-level verification approach.\n\nLeads system-level technical trade-offs and assesses changes impacting system integrity.\n\nProvides technical direction and alignment across subsystem teams.\n\nWorks within a clear scope alongside Product Management, Product Ownership, Engineering Management, subsystem teams, and V&V.\n\nWhy Join Us?\nJoin one of Europe’s most promising deep-tech scale-ups.\n\nShape the future of a rapidly growing multidisciplinary R&D organization.\n\nCompetitive salary and benefits package.\n\nEnjoy regular team activities and company events.\n\nFresh team lunches provided 5times/ week.\n\nRequirements\nQualifications:\nMSc or PhD in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Applied Physics, Photonics, Computer Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.\n\nMinimum 8 years of experience in multidisciplinary product development of complex technical systems.\n\nDemonstrated experience defining system architectures, requirements, interfaces, and technical baselines.\n\nDemonstrated experience leading technically complex engineering work and driving technical decisions within multidisciplinary product development teams.\n\nStrong understanding of systems engineering principles, requirements engineering, interface management, technical risk management, and verification planning.\n\nExperience with requirements management and systems engineering tools (e.g. Polarion, DOORS, Cameo, or equivalent).\n\nStrong analytical and structured engineering problem-solving skills.\n\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills in English.\n\nEligible to obtain EU/NATO security clearance.\n\nPreferred\nExperience with optical sensing systems, underwater systems, defence, or other high-reliability products.\n\nExperience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE).\n\nExperience with architecture trade studies and system modelling.\n\nFamiliarity with configuration management and technical baseline management.\n\nExperience supporting product verification and qualification.\n\nYou'll be working with clients in the defense and security sectors, obtaining a Certificate of No Objection issued by the AIVD (Dutch General Intelligence and Security Service) is mandatory. 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