Embedded Firmware Architect — Real-Time CAN/CANopen & USB

Xeryon; Vlaams-Brabant; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Dynamic environment

Growth opportunities

Ownership culture

Continuous learning

Job summary

Xeryon, a fast-growing Leuven-based company, seeks an experienced Embedded Software Developer to create scalable firmware for controllers and to build rich user interfaces across platforms.

You will own architectural decisions, ensure maintainability and performance, and support customers in integrating Xeryon controllers into their machines and industrial systems. Strong C/C++ skills and CAN/CANopen expertise are essential.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Electronics Engineering or equivalent.
• Minimum 5 years of industrial embedded firmware experience.
• Proven experience designing scalable embedded architectures.
• Strong C/C++ expertise.
• Experience with real-time systems and motion control.
• Strong knowledge of CAN and CANopen (implementation-level).
• Experience with USB and other communication interfaces (USB,UART,SPI,I2C,EtherCAT).
• Strong understanding of hardware–software interaction.
• Experience with Git-based workflows.
• Fluent in English; Dutch is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Support customers integrating Xeryon controllers into their machines and CANopen configuration.
• Define platform-wide testing strategies across hardware variants and ensure robust release management.
• Design a flexible communication framework supporting USB and CAN/CANopen and isolate protocol-specific layers from control logic.
• Develop high-performance embedded firmware in C/C++ and optimize timing, latency, and memory usage.

Skills

Embedded firmware

C/C++

CAN/CANopen

RTOS

Git workflows

Education

Master’s degree in Electronics Engineering

Tools

Oscilloscope

Logic analyzer

Protocol analyzers

Job description

Xeryon, a fast-growing Leuven-based company, seeks an experienced Embedded Software Developer to create scalable firmware for controllers and to build rich user interfaces across platforms.

You will own architectural decisions, ensure maintainability and performance, and support customers in integrating Xeryon controllers into their machines and industrial systems. Strong C/C++ skills and CAN/CANopen expertise are essential.