Sr. System Engineer/ Architect

In your role as Sr. System Engineer/ Architect, you are the technical leader in multidisciplinary teams of specialists and are the technical 'conscience' in projects. To do this, you need to be creative and have a good understanding of the expertise’s you're working with; mainly optics, mechanics, and control engineering.

Your challenge lies in connecting all expertise’s involved in a project, and in shifting between detailed technical discussions and maintaining a helicopter view to make strategic project decisions. These decisions often have to be made on the basis of incomplete data, and therefore it's important that you are aware of the underlying technical and physical principles.

Your main contributions to the projects are in the conceptual phase for idea generation and design phase for budgeting, technical decisions and team steering, in close cooperation with the customer(s), subcontractor(s) and partner(s). As system engineer you stay involved up to delivery to the customer, which requires the capability to manage the organizations' team and their partners towards the desired performance results within time and budget constraints. In addition, together with your colleagues you write project proposals for new paid assignments; you define topics for the organizations' internal fundamental research and you mentor your younger colleagues.

The research group develops high-end opto-mechanical and mechatronics systems for applications in the semiconductor industry, space instrumentation and big science. Together with 70 specialists, systems engineers and project managers, we develop working instrument prototypes to show how the technical challenges of our partners and customers can be solved. They push the limits of technology, to stimulate Dutch industry and enable scientific discovery. To build on this success, we are looking for a Sr. System Engineer/ Architect.

YER Technology offers you the possibility to join as Engineering Professional and to combine challenging assignments with extensive application and career guidance. The following conditions are applicable:

• Attractive salary according to the standards of our clients
• 25 holidays per year and the option to buy more holidays. Together with that it's possible to get ATV days if applicable
• A temporary or permanent contract with YER
• The possibility to join (y)our client directly after one year
• Travel expense reimbursement
• Good pension scheme
• Every hour of overtime will be compensated
• Open and transparent communication with your personal consultant
• Free Dutch classes
• Personal career coaching from our occupational psychologists
• Broad technical and softs skills training opportunities
• A Service Desk ready to answer all your practical questions

To be successful in this role, you have:

• A Masters or PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Applied Physics or another relevant specialisation.
• At least 8 years of relevant experience in the design of (opto)mechatronic systems in a high tech environment.
• An understanding of control engineering and mechatronic system design.
• A thorough knowledge of optics and optical systems.
• Knowledge about sensors and actuators and the physical principles behind it.
• Experience with motivating, inspiring and convincing colleagues, project teams and customers, being able to steer your team members towards the result you have in mind.
• A critical mindset, eager to get to know what the customer demand is and willing to outdo his expectations together with your team.
• A pragmatic and creative attitude.
• Mastery of the English language, both in speech and in writing.