Engineering Manager Sensing Platform Team

We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our Sensing Platform Team, the core technology platform that powers our high-precision sensing solutions across multiple products.

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.

This is a high-impact leadership role at the heart of our R&D organization, where you will shape teams, enable predictable execution, and help scale a multidisciplinary engineering platform that combines electronics, photonics, mechanics, and embedded systems.Rather than being the person designing every technical solution yourself, your focus is on creating the environment, structure, and leadership needed for teams to perform at their best.

This role sits at the intersection of people leadership, engineering execution, and cross-team collaboration, playing a key role in scaling our platform and supporting product innovation.

• Lead, coach, and develop a multidisciplinary team of engineers across electronics, photonics, mechanics, and embedded domains

• Create a strong culture of ownership, collaboration, and accountability

• Drive performance management, career development, and succession planning

• Hire and onboard new talent as the platform organization continues to scale

• Ensure the team delivers critical platform capabilities in a reliable and scalable way

• Align team capacity and priorities with product and platform roadmaps

• Balance short-term delivery needs with long-term engineering quality

• Provide clear visibility on progress, risks, blockers, and dependencies

• Continuously optimize workflows, planning, and team collaboration

• Remove blockers and improve team effectiveness

• Drive process improvements across development, validation, and release readiness

• Increase engineering efficiency through improved tooling and scalable practices

• Partner closely with Product, System Engineering, and Platform leadership

• Ensure alignment between platform capabilities and product needs

• Support smooth integration of reusable platform technology into products

• Facilitate effective communication across multiple technical teams

• Create the conditions for robust, scalable, and reusable hardware solutions

• Support strong engineering standards, validation, and testing practices

• Enable long-term platform thinking across products and future innovations