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Jeroen Veugelers, HR, +316 – 34885207 / jeroen.veugelers@cpp.canon

Language Engineer – Domain‑Specific Languages
40  hours per week, in Venlo (NL)

What You’ll Do

You will be part of the Digital Twin Factory initiative within the System-Level Modeling department. This initiative provides the technological backbone for model-based and data-driven product development across Canon Production Printing.

Your primary responsibility is the design, implementation, and evolution of domain-specific languages (DSLs). These languages enable R&D engineers, designers, and system architects to express system structure, behavior, constraints, data relationships, and experiments in a precise, executable, and analyzable way.

You’ll be responsible for:

• Designing and evolving DSLs that encode domain knowledge, data semantics, and computational intent at the appropriate abstraction level
• Implementing language concepts such as editors, validation rules, type systems, and generators using a language-engineering approach
• Defining explicit relations between DSL-level models and data, including inputs, intermediate artifacts, provenance, and results
• Exposing DSLs through a microservice-based architecture for web-based and API-driven workflows
• Connecting language-level models to advanced computation, simulation, and analysis tooling, including HPC environments
• Exploring and applying AI/LLM capabilities to support language engineering and model-based workflows
• Working closely with domain experts to evolve languages with a balance between usability and semantic rigor
• Contributing to the overall language and platform architecture with focus on scalability and cross-domain integration
  
  

This role is centered on language design, semantics, and their connection to data and computation. It is not a system administration role.

Who You’ll Work With

You will work in a multidisciplinary, international R&D environment together with system architects, designers, software engineers, and domain experts. Our organization has a flat hierarchy and values close collaboration, knowledge sharing, and technical excellence.

What You Bring

We’re looking for a team player who meets the following requirements:

• A Master’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field
• Experience with language engineering or strong experience in object-oriented analysis, modeling, and conceptual design
• Solid software engineering skills and understanding of modular and service-oriented architectures
• The ability to reason about semantics, abstraction boundaries, and technical trade-offs
• A reuse- and platform-oriented mindset
• Fluent English, spoken and written

Preferred:

• Experience with JetBrains MPS or another language workbench, or strong motivation to grow into this role
• Affinity with data modeling, data pipelines, and semantic consistency across models and datasets
• Experience with or interest in AI/LLM technologies supporting language- or model-based engineering
• Familiarity with HPC, simulation workflows, or large-scale computational pipelines
• Java and/or JVM ecosystem experience

What You’ll Get From Us

We provide an exciting, dynamic work environment with plenty of opportunity for you to develop personally and professionally. We offer excellent conditions to help you be who you want to be:

• A competitive salary in line with your educational background and experience (€ 4166 ~ € 6348
• 38 vacation days
• Extra 13th month pay (8,6%), holiday allowance (8%) and commuting allowance
• Hybrid working for a healthy work-life balance (hybrid 20% /On location 80%)
• A huge range of training and professional development opportunities
• A laptop and smartphone
• An interesting lease (e-)bike plan

Career opportunities

In this role there are plenty of opportunities to further develop yourself, e.g. to lead mechanical engineer, mechanical designer, etc.

Proces

All submitted applications will be reviewed together during the first selection round on April 1.