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Operational & Administrative Support Manager

Hands‑On Role in a High‑Tech Scale‑Up (Eindhoven Region)

Job description: BRIGHT Photonics is looking for a hands‑on, organized, and proactive Operational & Administrative Support Manager who enjoys getting things done and keeping a growing high‑tech company running smoothly. This is not a “sit back and delegate” role — you’ll be doing the actual admin work, supporting daily operations, and helping us build structure as we scale.
If you like variety, enjoy helping people, and feel at home in a friendly, international, engineering‑driven environment, you’ll fit right in.

Job type: Full Time

Salary: Competitive salary commensurate with experience

Location: Eindhoven, the Netherlands

What You’ll Be Doing

    Administrative & Office Support

• Keep our documentation, records, and correspondence organized and up‑to‑date.
• Handle day‑to‑day admin tasks: planning, follow‑ups, preparing documents, keeping things structured.
• Arrange meetings, logistics, and practical support for management and technical teams.
• Take care of office operations and facility needs — from ordering supplies to making sure everything runs smoothly.

    Operational Support

• Take ownership of day‑to‑day operational workflows and make sure information flows smoothly between engineering, commercial, and management.
• Handle practical HR‑ and finance‑related administrative tasks such as maintaining personnel files, updating asset lists, tracking equipment, processing basic invoices or purchase records, and keeping internal data organized.
• Keep inventories, equipment lists, and asset tracking up‑to‑date — you’re the one who maintains the overview.
• Identify bottlenecks or inefficiencies in daily operations and propose practical improvements — in a scale‑up, your ideas and initiative really matter.

    Order Management & Procurement

• Process incoming and outgoing orders accurately and on time.
• Support procurement: contacting suppliers, placing orders, tracking deliveries.
• Act as a reliable link between customers, suppliers, and internal teams to ensure smooth operations.

    Contract & Documentation Control

• Perform first checks on contracts and NDAs for completeness and accuracy.
• Keep our legal, operational, and quality documents well‑structured and easy to find.
• Maintain controlled documents such as SOPs, templates, and quality files.

    Communication & Coordination

• Be a central point of contact for colleagues, customers, and suppliers.
• Ensure clear, professional communication in Dutch and English.
• Support management with preparing presentations, reports, and structured updates.

What You Bring:

• Strong organizational skills and the ability to keep multiple tasks running smoothly.
• High attention to detail — especially in orders, documentation, and communication.
• Clear and friendly communication in Dutch and English.
• A proactive, problem‑solving mindset: you see what needs to be done and take action.
• Comfortable with office software (text editors, spreadsheets, CRM/ERP systems).
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work well with different teams.Proven hands-on experience in photonic or semiconductor test automation.

Preferred Background:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Management, Operations, or similar — or equivalent experience.
• 2–5 years of experience in operations, administration, procurement, or customer support.
• Experience with Dutch Tax system.
• Experience with NDAs, contracts, or basic HR/Finance processes.
• Affinity with high‑tech, photonics, or engineering environments — or curiosity to learn.

Why This Role Fits a High‑Tech Scale‑Up:

• You work closely with management and engineering, and you see the impact of your work every day.
• You help build structure as we grow — your ideas matter.
• You handle sensitive documents and external communication with professionalism.
• You can grow into roles in quality, operations, or project coordination as the company expands.

What do we offer?

• A hands‑on, varied role with real impact on our daily operations.
• A friendly, informal atmosphere combined with an international high‑tech environment.
• Opportunities to grow professionally as the company scales.
• Collaboration with multidisciplinary teams.
• Competitive compensation aligned with the high‑tech industry.

Contact: hr@brightphotonics.eu.

Only applications sent directly to hr@brightphotonics.eu are considered.

Applications must include CV+Motivation letter+Reference Contact.

Candidates must have an EU citizenship.

Photonic Integrated Circuits Test Engineer

Job description: BRIGHT Photonics is a design house in integrated photonics, supporting customers worldwide in developing next‑generation PIC‑based solutions. As a Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) Test Engineer, you will play a central role in validating photonic designs, developing test setups, and delivering high‑quality measurement data to our customers, design and simulation teams. You will work in a compact, multidisciplinary environment where ownership, teamwork, and technical curiosity are highly valued. Your work will span multiple exciting application domains, including LiDAR systems, quantum communication chips, advanced optical sensors, and across emerging photonic integration technologies..

Job type: Full Time

Salary: Competitive salary commensurate with experience

Location: Eindhoven, the Netherlands

Key responsibilities:

• Set up, execute, and refine optical and electrical measurements for PIC prototypes and customer projects.
• Develop, maintain, and improve photonic test benches using lasers, modulators, detectors, RF equipment, and optical components.
• Characterize PIC building blocks such as lasers, MZ modulators, AWGs, filters, photodiodes, and passive structures.
• Automate measurement workflows using Python or similar scripting tools.
• Analyze and interpret measurement data, providing clear feedback to design and simulation teams, and customers.
• Prepare high‑quality documentation, including measurement plans and reports.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of measurement accuracy, throughput, and methodology.
• Support customers in understanding measurement results and optimizing their PIC designs.

What You Bring:

• MSc or PhD in Photonics, Physics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• At least 2 years of hands‑on experience testing and characterizing Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs).
• Practical experience with optical test equipment such as tunable lasers, OSAs, power meters, polarization controllers, and VNAs.
• Solid understanding of integrated photonics platforms (SiPh, InP, SiN).
• Strong skills in data analysis and automation (Python preferred).
• Familiarity with RF measurements and high‑speed modulators is an advantage.
• Ability to debug complex opto‑electronic systems.
• Strong communication skills in English.
• A proactive, hands-on, independent working style combined with a collaborative mindset.

Additional Assets:

• Experience with PCB design; Hands-on experience with soldering and wire-bonding.
• Experience in high-throughput or wafer-level photonics testing.
• Exposure to packaging processes or cleanroom environments.
• Contributions to open-source automation or measurement libraries.

What do we offer?

• A role within the vibrant Dutch integrated photonics ecosystem.
• Work with cutting-edge photonic integration technologies.
• An informal, international, and highly collaborative working environment.
• Direct impact on customer projects, prototypes, and emerging technologies.
• Opportunities to grow into design, simulation or packaging roles.
• Develop your own skills and contribute to company growth.

Contact: hr@brightphotonics.eu.

Only applications sent directly to hr@brightphotonics.eu are considered.

Applications must include CV+Motivation letter+Reference Contact.

Candidates must have an EU citizenship or a valid EU resident permit.

Senior Photonics Engineer

Job description: BRIGHT Photonics is seeking a talented and motivated senior photonics engineer to work on our commercial and R&D projects in the application areas such as telecommunication, datacommunication, sensing, microwave photonics, and biophotonics. You will be designing a variety of photonic components and devices on different technology platforms, such as, Si, InP, SiN, PLC. You will have opportunities to characterize fabricated components and circuits. You will directly engage with customers on PIC design support, defining device specification, preparing concept studies. Part of the job will be related to improving design flow, participating in development of in-house design tools, and development of compact models. You will engage in projects definition and project management. This position is for a senior level and independent professional with 2+ years of industrial experience.

Job type: Full Time

Salary: Competitive salary commensurate with experience

Location: Eindhoven, the Netherlands

 

Key responsibilities:

• Design of active and/or passive photonic components and devices.
• Design, simulation and layout work on photonic components and photonic integrated circuits
• Develop new design approaches, improve design flow and contribute to the development of in-house design tooling.
• Interact with technology providers and customers on device design.

Key qualifications:

• M.Sc. or Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering/ physics/ applied physics/ optics/ photonics/ or similar quantitative fields.
• Good understanding of general concepts in physics, especially in optics and electro-magnetism.
• Good understanding of concepts in fiber communication, fiber optics, and integrated photonics.
• Experience with designing, modeling, layout and characterizing photonic integrated circuits and opto-electronic devices, such as lasers, photodetectors, modulators.
• Experience in using computational methods to design photonic components, (e.g. in EM simulations, BPM, FDTD).
• Excellent communication skills in English both oral and writing.
• Solid programming skills in Python or C/C++.
• Independent, strong initiative, self-motivated, accurate and precise working attitude, ability to work under pressure with defined deadlines.

Additional Assets:

• Experience with high-frequency design and modeling.
• Experience with PCB design.
• Experience with epitaxial growth and epi design.
• Experience with data analysis and data management.
• Solid computer skills using various operating systems.

What do we offer?

• Work on state-of-the-art topics in photonics technology and photonic-based device development.
• Challenging problems requiring out-of-the box thinking.
• Work in an exciting, international environment.
• Work alongside other experienced photonic designers.
• Develop your own skills and contribute to company growth.
• A competitive salary and flexible working hours.

Contact: hr@brightphotonics.eu.

Only applications sent directly to hr@brightphotonics.eu are considered.

Applications must include CV+Motivation letter+Reference Contact.

Candidates must have an EU citizenship or a valid EU resident permit.

Senior Photonics System & RF Engineer

Job description: BRIGHT Photonics is seeking for a talented and motivated Photonics System & RF Engineer to work on our commercial and R&D projects in photonic integration technologies. You will be developing next generation R&D photonic integrated systems in a multi-disciplinary team. Your role will span from capturing requirements and specification, through design of photonic components, design of high-speed RF interfaces, development, verification and deployment. You will directly engage with our customers and suppliers, and engage in projects definition and project management. This position is for a senior level and independent professional with 4+ years of experience.

Job type: Full Time

Salary: Competitive salary commensurate with experience

Location: Eindhoven, the Netherlands

 

Key responsibilities:

• Capture and refine specification of photonics systems and interact with technology providers and customers on device/system development.
• Design, simulate, model and solve high-tech system problems (i.e. photonics, optical, opto-mechanical, mechanical, electronical).
• Design, simulation and layout work on photonic components and photonic integrated circuits.
• Design RF interfaces, simulate and analyze signal integrity of high speed interconnects.
• Plan and perform tests at the system and sub-system level of opto-electronic devices.
• Contribute to the development of in-house design tool in the high-speed RF domain.

Key qualifications:

• M.Sc. or Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering/ applied physics/ opto-electronics or similar fields.
• Good understanding of general concept in physics, opto-electronics, mechanics, RF and microwave design.
• Knowledge about photonics and photonic integration technologies.
• Experience with designing, modeling, layout and characterizing photonic integrated circuits and/or other opto-electronic devices
• Experience with designing, modeling, layout of high-frequency RF substrates and RF interconnects; adequate experience with EDA tools and RF modeling tools.
• Excellent communication skills in English both oral and writing.
• Good programming skills in Python or C/C++.
• Independent, strong initiative, self-motivated, accurate and precise working attitude, ability to work under pressure with defined deadlines.

Additional Assets:

• Experience in working with industry in optical/electronic systems in the tele/datacom or aerospace industries.
• Experience with RF measurements (e.g. using VNA)
• Experience with data analysis and data management.
• Solid computer skills using various operating systems.

What do we offer?

• Work on state-of-the-art topics in photonics technology and photonic-based device development.
• Challenging problems requiring out-of-the box thinking.
• Work in an exciting, international environment.
• Work alongside other experienced photonic designers.
• Develop your own skills and contribute to company growth.
• A competitive salary and flexible working hours.

Contact: hr@brightphotonics.eu.

Only applications sent directly to hr@brightphotonics.eu are considered.

Applications must include CV+Motivation letter+Reference Contact.

Candidates must have an EU citizenship or a valid EU resident permit.