Doers and Dreamers
OPT/NET B.V. is a team of doers & dreamers that build comprehensive AI products based on decades of hardcore critical industry experience. We believe in making humans superhuman, not replacing them.
Open Positions
About OPT/NET
OPT/NET builds mission-critical, AI-powered platforms that turn vast, fast-moving data into real- time insights.
- MONITORED AI – a cloud-native SaaS that fuses multi-sensor Earth-Observation, IoT and intelligence feeds; enriches them with AI Knowledge Packs; and serves decision- ready geospatial insight through an intuitive, 3-D web UI compliant with OGC standards.
The Opportunity
We’re looking for a Product Manager who can wear two hats: hands-on geospatial analyst and outcome-driven product and project lead.
You’ll be doing project management, interfacing between customers/stakeholders and engineering teams, creating documentation and making sure every customer gets value from day one.
What You’ll Do
- Geospatial Analysis & Prototyping
- Design and run analysis workflows (e.g. change detection, asset tracking, environmental indices).
- Validate AI Knowledge Packs on pilot data and turn findings into backlog items.
- Documentation & Enablement
- Produce user guides, API references, release notes and quick-start videos.
- Maintain the public Knowledge-Base and in-app tooltips;
- EU Grant Project Management
- Act as OPT/NET’s single point of contact for Horizon Europe, European Defence Fund, ESA, or CEF projects.
- Create periodic and final reports (technical & financial), track KPIs, coordinate consortium deliverables and attend review meetings in Brussels/online.
- Manage project budgets, risks and work-package schedules in line with GA/DoA.
- Customer Training & Support
- Deliver onboarding workshops, and run live demos.
- Gather feedback, triage issues and ensure smooth hand-off to engineering.
What You’ll Bring
- 5 + years in product management, solution consulting or GIS/remote-sensing roles.
- Hands-on with geospatial tools & data: GDAL, QGIS, PostGIS, xarray, Rasterio; understanding of EO sensors (Sentinel, Landsat, commercial SAR/optical).
- Proven track record managing EU-funded R&D or innovation projects (Horizon 2020/Europe, ESA, CEF, EIT, INTERREG, etc.)
- Ability to write concise, user-friendly documentation and translate complex analytics into business value.
- Agile mindset; fluent with JIRA/Azure DevOps, Confluence and FigJam/Miro.
- Excellent communication in English; additional EU languages a plus.
- Willingness to travel ~10 % within Europe for field trials, consortium reviews and customer training.
Bonus Points
- Familiarity with OGC APIs (WMS, WMTS, STAC), Cesium/Mapbox GL, WebAssembly or WebGPU visualisation.
- Experience integrating ML pipelines (PyTorch, TensorFlow) into productised services.
Why OPT/NET
- Impact – your work keeps national networks and critical infrastructure online.
- Hybrid flexibility – work from our Alkmaar HQ with option to work from home 2 days a week.
- Growth – annual conference budget, dedicated learning days, mentorship from senior AI and DevOps engineers.
- Competitive salary, 25 + holiday days, pension plan and the latest M1/RTX kit.
How to Apply
Email your CV (or GitHub/LinkedIn) and a short note about a complex network you recently tamed to careers@opt-net.eu. We review applications continuously and aim to schedule an introductory call within a week.
About OPT/NET
OPT/NET builds mission-critical, AI-powered platforms that turn vast, fast-moving data into real-time insights. The organization is an ambitious, innovative scale-up with strong growth potential based in the Netherlands. The team has ambitions to grow, maintains a pleasant non-hierarchical work culture, and operates as a close- knit unit. Currently, the team consists of 15 people, with the goal of growing to 20 by the end of 2025 and 30 internationally by 2026.
The Opportunity
You’ll be primarily responsible for keeping an eye on the wellbeing and performance of our internationally operating scale-up. Your secondary role is to expand and execute the process of recruiting new team members. In this role, you will collaborate with executive management as the first dedicated HR expert, with a unique opportunity to shape and lead the company's future HR strategy. This is a young and dynamic company with lots of room to grow. We do everything we can to build a fun, international team and create a great working atmosphere. We’re looking for someone who can keep overview in a lively and friendly atmosphere in an ever-changing environment. Someone who understands what motivates people and how to build strong performing, collaborative teams.
What You’ll Do
Company well-being
- Ongoing informal and regular formal check-ins with team and management to keep the work experience meaningful and enjoyable
- Regular performance and contract renewal conversations with employees
- Establish new and continue supporting ongoing learning and development plans
- Organizing necessary courses, team outings/activities in alignment with business needs
- Acting as a confidential advisor and contact person for staff
- Mediating between employees, managers, and owners of the company when needed
Recruitment
- Identifying key internal expertise gaps, establishing a hiring process
- Creation of job descriptions and posting vacancies on our website and other platforms
- Screening incoming resumes and conducting initial interviews and scheduling follow-up interviews with relevant teams/managers
- Establish a clear and low-overheard process of interviewing and onboarding
- Prepare and refine continuously recruiting and onboarding materials General HR tasks
- Managing onboarding/offboarding
- Preparing and updating contracts
- Desirable - Payroll administration (now outsourced).
Who you are
- You’re socially skilled HR professional with a proven track record and enjoy working with a wide range of people in a young and dynamic business
- You love establishing, forming and improving the workplace and ‘sculpting’ the culture in the multinational team working in hybrid and remote modes
- You can introduce structure and help shape HR policies
- You’re well organized, disciplined, and communicate clearly.
Requirements
- Relevant experience demonstrated/proven by accomplishments in previous software company HR positions
- Sufficient knowledge of the Dutch Labour law incl. absenteeism
- Excellent command of English, both spoken and written.
What we offer
A challenging and exciting role where you’ll be the one shaping and building our HR policy. We’re looking for someone available for 16–24 hours per week. We offer options for both direct employment and freelance (ZZP) contracts. Salary/ compensation depends on your experience and education.
For us at OPT/NET the customer experience and operational excellence is at the forefront of everything we do. Elevating customer experience beyond the state of the art and exceeding all customer expectations are our goals.
We are looking for a versatile motivated and ambitious DevOps Engineer *star* who will help us build our diverse family of advanced telecom grade AI products deployed on the large-scale High-Performance and functional hybrid cloud systems.
We are looking for talented individuals who are looking to realize their full potential with the organization where rewards are merit based.
He/She will be responsible for maintaining our lab and production infrastructures, supporting software building processes and tool-chains, deploying products and updates for our customers, identifying production issues and implementing integrations that meet and exceed our customers' needs.
If you have a solid background in linux, cloud systems, networking, and understand what it takes to support software engineering processes and are familiar with CENTOS/RedHat Linux, Cloud(s) technology, Python, Bash and other scripting languages, we’d love to speak with you.
Objectives of this Role:
• Maintaining our Lab and Prod environments
• Building and setting up new development tool chains and CI/CD processes
• Listening to and understanding the needs of external and internal customer & users and other stakeholders during interactions with them and conveying this information to developers and product managers
• Working on ways to automate and improve our development, release and deployment processes
• Testing and examining the DevOps code written by others and analyzing results while using internally developed tooling and our own AI products
• Ensuring that all our customer’s systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
• Identifying technical problems and developing software updates and ‘fixes’ by monitoring the deployed platforms with our AI tools
• Working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended
• Planning out projects and being involved in project management decisions
Daily and Monthly Responsibilities:
• Maintain Lab and Prod infrastructures
• Deploy updates and fixes
• Provide Level 2 technical support to the cloud customers
• Build tools based on our AI products to eliminate occurrences of errors and keep customer experience at highest levels possible
• Develop software(scripts) to integrate with internal back-end and external front end systems
• Perform root cause analysis for production errors that (unfortunately) happened
• Investigate and resolve technical issues proactively based on the insights from our OptOSS AI
• Develop scripts to automate certain frequent visualization (AI Knowledge Packs) for OptOSS AI and other products of ours
• Collaborate on the design of procedures for internal and external system troubleshooting and maintenance
Skills and Qualifications:
• BSc in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field
• Experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar software engineering role
• Generic CENTOS Linux systems administration, disaster recovery
• Proficient with Git and Git workflows
• Good knowledge of UNIX shells (Bash), Python or Perl
• Working knowledge of databases and SQL (Postgres or PostGIS)
• Basics of IPv4 Networking and LAN Switching (Cisco, Juniper)
• Experience with Atlassian family of Server Edition products such as JIRA, Bitbucket
• Familiar with Jenkins CI/CD approach
• SSO and authentication with Google
• Familiar with Docker, Kubernetes and desired experience with SDN
• Cloud technology from heterogeneous cloud providers (AWS, GCP, IBM)
• Problem-solving and willing to learn and improve attitude
• Collaborative team spirit and ability to smooth out any conflict and deflect negativity (especially when customer facing)
Preferred Qualifications:
• Master's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering
• Experience with software engineering, customer experience and telecom/network engineering
• Experience developing engineering applications for a large service providers, telecom providers or very large corporations
You can make a bold spontaneous application (CV & cover letter), even if we are not specifically advertising for the role. We are always open to connect with talented & ambitious people and discuss potential opportunities.
