Application Engineer at Optics11 | Amsterdam | Rezi

Application Engineer at Optics11

Application Engineer

Optics11 · Amsterdam

1 months ago

Application Engineer

Optics11 · Amsterdam

2 months ago
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About the Role

This experienced Application Engineer role supports customers with advanced monitoring and diagnostic solutions for high-voltage electrical assets. The role serves as a technical link between customers, sales, product management, and engineering, supporting the full customer journey from technical sales to post-installation support. The ideal candidate has a strong background in electrical engineering, power systems, high-voltage equipment, or condition monitoring, with practical experience or interest in Partial Discharge diagnostics. This is a hands-on, customer-facing role combining field work, application expertise, technical communication, and commercial awareness.

Responsibilities

  • Support sales teams in customer meetings, proposal preparation, product demonstrations, workshops, and technical discussions.
  • Understand customer needs and translate them into technical solutions.
  • Clearly explain complex technical topics to technical and commercial audiences.
  • Prepare technical content for proposals, presentations, and customer communication.
  • Support testing and monitoring for high-voltage assets (transformers, switchgear, cables, grid equipment).
  • Plan and execute customer site visits, field demonstrations, installations, commissioning, and troubleshooting of monitoring systems.
  • Prepare technical reports from field measurements, monitoring data, or third-party results.
  • Deliver customer training on theory, measurement principles, system operation, data analysis, reporting, and asset condition assessment.
  • Collaborate with engineering, product management, operations, logistics, and sales for successful project delivery.
  • Contribute to application notes, technical documentation, training materials, case studies, conference papers, and presentations.
  • Provide structured field feedback to improve products, applications, and customer support processes.
  • Share application knowledge internally.

Requirements

  • Willingness to travel internationally for customer visits, installations, commissioning, training, and events, typically around 30% of the time.
  • Currently residing in the Netherlands.
  • Legal right to work in the Netherlands without requiring visa sponsorship or a work permit.

Skills

  • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to investigate technical issues in field and customer-facing environments.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex technical topics clearly.
  • Customer-oriented mindset, professional attitude, and ability to build trust with customers and internal teams.
  • Strong business ethics, reliable work approach, and professional personal character.
  • Foundational to solid understanding of Partial Discharge theory, measurement techniques, or condition monitoring.
  • Experience with high-voltage electrical equipment, substations, grid assets, or industrial power systems.
  • Practical experience with PD testing, PD data interpretation.
  • Experience with fibre optic sensing, acoustic emission, asset management, condition monitoring, structural health monitoring, non-destructive testing, or predictive maintenance.

Location

  • Netherlands

Experience Level

  • 3–6+ years of experience in electrical systems, applications, testing, diagnostics, or a related technical field.

Education Level

  • Master’s degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Power Engineering, Physics, or a related technical field.

Salary/Compensations

  • Competitive salary

Benefits

  • Lots of traveling, to anywhere across the globe (10 to 30% traveling time, depending on the workload).
  • Lots of growth opportunities.
  • Opportunity to work in a cross-functional and interdisciplinary environment.
  • Stimulated personal development.

About the Company

  • Innovative high-tech, international organization.