# Senior Mechanical Engineer (OptiArray)

Optics11 is a fast-growing high-tech company based in Amsterdam, developing advanced fiber optic sensing systems for the most demanding environments. 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. Within 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. The Role As a Senior Mechanical Engineer at Optics11, you are responsible for the development and engineering realization of the OptiArray system. Your primary objective is to develop robust, structural, easy to manufacture solutions that ensure the array can be easily manufactured, deployed, and operated throughout their intended service life. You translate allocated product and system requirements into engineering solutions that provide structural integrity, mechanical robustness, corrosion resistance, m

- **Id**: 3971173
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/optics11-senior-mechanical-engineer-optiarray-2>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Amsterdam, Netherlands
- **Countries**: NL
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T15:58:51Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T08:18:48Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5497
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- **Benefits**: Company events
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Sensors & Transducers, Optics & Photonic Components

## Company

- **Id**: 2001460
- **Name**: Optics11
- **Domain**: optics11.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/optics11>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Recruitee

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 96
- **Open postings**: 6
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.167
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 53
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Technologies

- **FMEA** — Optional: no
- **SolidWorks** — Optional: no
- **Verification & Validation** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

### Languages

- Language: Dutch; Level: All levels; Optional: no
- Language: English; Level: All levels; Optional: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T16:12:51Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 53
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

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