Engineering Manager Product Team

At Optics11, we are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a multidisciplinary Product Team working at the intersection of hardware and software.

At Optics11, we are building one of Europe’s most exciting deep-tech scale-up environments, developing advanced fiber optic sensing technology that protects critical infrastructure across underwater security, energy, and industrial applications.

In this role, you will lead a group of engineers responsible for delivering complete product solutions that combine hardware and software capabilities. Your focus will be on building strong teams, enabling effective execution, and ensuring predictable delivery of product features and releases. Rather than defining technical solutions yourself, your role is to create the environment, structure, and team dynamics in which engineers can perform at their best and successfully deliver high-quality products.

This position sits at the intersection of people leadership, product delivery, and cross-functional collaboration, ensuring that product development remains aligned, efficient, and scalable.

What will you do

Lead and develop a high-performing team

Coach, mentor, and grow engineers across multiple disciplines

Drive performance management, feedback, and career development

Build a collaborative, accountable, and high-performing team culture

Hire and onboard new engineers to strengthen team capability

Enable predictable product delivery

Ensure the team delivers product features and releases in a predictable and sustainable way

Align team capacity with product priorities and roadmap

Balance delivery speed, quality, and long-term sustainability

Provide clear visibility on progress, risks, and dependencies

Support product execution and integration

Work closely with Product Owners to support delivery of defined scope

Collaborate with System Engineering to ensure alignment with system architecture

Coordinate across disciplines to ensure smooth integration

Support readiness for product releases

Improve ways of working

Continuously improve development processes, workflows, and collaboration

Remove blockers and increase team effectiveness

Optimize planning, coordination, and execution

Drive improvements in tooling and engineering efficiency

Collaborate across teams

Work closely with platform teams to ensure availability of required capabilities

Align product development with platform evolution

Facilitate communication across teams and disciplines

Support effective cross-team coordination and dependency management

Enable high-quality product delivery

Create the conditions for delivering reliable, well-integrated, and maintainable product solutions

Support strong engineering practices, testing, and validation

Ensure product readiness for integration and release

Why Join Us

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

Lead a critical platform team at the core of our technology

Shape the future of a rapidly growing multidisciplinary R&D organization

Competitive salary and benefits package

Enjoy regular team activities and company events

Fresh team lunches provided3 times/ week

Requirements: What You Bring

Experience leading and developing engineering teams of 10–15+ engineers

Strong people leadership and coaching skills

Experience working in product development environments

Strong understanding of engineering development processes and product development cycles

Strong communication skills and ability to work across multiple teams

Strong understanding of cross-functional collaboration and system integration

Ability to improve team performance, processes, and delivery

MSc in Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics, Systems Engineering, or a related technical field

We believe in:

clear ownership and strong collaboration

empowered teams and technical leadership

continuous improvement and learning

building scalable and reusable solutions

You'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. This means you will need to undergo a security screening. For more information, please refer to details on security screening. 

More information 

So now you know we're doing awesome projects and if you see you fit the profile we would like to get to know you. Apply or, in case of questions, get in touch with our recruiter Dóra Öveges ( dora.oveges@optics11.com).