Manager – Integration & Validation of Complex Systems F/H

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Update on 17/10/2025

  • Contract type:  Permanent contract

  • Work time:  Full time

  • Location Rennes

The company

Founded in 2013, Cailabs designs, manufactures, and develops innovative photonic solutions for the space, industry, telecommunications, and defense sectors. A global specialist in laser shaping, the company has accelerated its growth in the space field with turnkey optical ground stations that integrate atmospheric turbulence compensation technology. This makes it one of the first companies to harness very high data rates enabled by optics in a commercial ground station.

Cailabs currently has 150 employees, including 35 PhDs. With 29 patent families filed, the company is one of the most innovative companies in France. It is headquartered in Rennes, with offices in Paris and Washington (USA).

Post description

Join an ambitious technological adventure.

 

At Cailabs, our teams design optical solutions that push the boundaries of communications, whether it’s space laser links, optical communication systems, or advanced optoelectronic equipment.

To support this dynamic growth, we are looking for an IVV Manager within our Technical Department.

This is a strategic position that combines technical expertise and leadership, overseeing the IVV strategy while guiding a team of passionate engineers.

 

Your daily responsibilities

• Support and develop a team of 5 to 6 engineers by providing technical and methodological guidance.

• Define verification and validation criteria, test benches, components, sub-systems, and system integration.

• Supervise and actively participate in product integration, ensuring step-by-step validation of sub-system compliance.

• Ensure rigorous testing and technical investigations in case of non-compliance, proposing appropriate solutions.

• Act as an interface between optical, electronic, software, and mechanical teams to ensure a common understanding of objectives and constraints.

• Contribute to requirements traceability throughout the V-cycle, in close collaboration with the system architecture team.

• Facilitate workshops and feedback sessions to strengthen team cohesion, share best practices, and support continuous improvement.

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What we are looking for

• Graduate from an engineering school (Master’s level, Bac +5) with proven experience in systems engineering, particularly in IVV, V&V, or AIT, in a high-tech environment.

• Broad technical vision and strong methodological approach, with the ability to coordinate multiple stakeholders and disciplines.

• Demonstrated experience in team management, with a strong interest in technical work and collaboration with R&D, Operations, and clients.

• Ability to analyze, challenge, and argue effectively, proposing practical solutions to complex technical problems.

• Curiosity and openness to innovation, comfortable in demanding and evolving technical environments.

• Fluent in English, both written and spoken.

 

Joining Cailabs means contributing to high-tech projects in a stimulating environment where innovation is part of everyday life.

 

By joining Cailabs, you’ll find:

  • A brilliant team driven by a shared mission: creating products that help address some of the major industrial and technological challenges.
  • The opportunity to be part of a dynamic organization combining agility with resources to match its ambitions.
  • A company at the cutting edge of technology, from prototype development to industrialization phases.

And also:

  • Moments of sharing and camaraderie (annual seminars, meals, group games, sports activities, etc.).
    100% coverage of health insurance.
  • A bonus system that rewards both collective and individual performance.

Required languages

  • English English - Level advanced

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Manager – Integration & Validation of Complex Systems F/H

Permanent contract
Full time
Rennes

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