Firmware & Integration Engineer

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 is a fast-growing company located in the heart of the Eastech Park Leuven. With a close-knit team, we focus on developing and improving piezo motors, actuators, and stages.

Job Summary:

Due to its unique motor technology, Xeryon has developed its own control platform. The firmware running on these controllers ensures very precise and extremely fast movement of our motors.

As an Embedded Software Developer at Xeryon, you will be responsible for the development of embedded software for our controllers and for programming User Interfaces on various platforms.

Your mission is to build and maintain in a team a scalable, modular firmware platform that supports multiple hardware variants and communication interfaces — ranging from accessible entry-level interfaces such as USB to robust industrial protocols such as CAN and CANopen.

You take ownership of architectural decisions that ensure long-term maintainability, extensibility, and performance across our product portfolio. In addition, you support customers in integrating our controllers into their machines and industrial systems.

Key Responsibilities:

Customer Support & System Integration

• Support customers integrating Xeryon controllers into their machines.
• Support CANopen configuration and network setup.
• Analyze and resolve integration issues.
• Develop integration documentation and application notes.
• Translate field challenges into structural product improvements.

Testing, Validation & Release Strategy

• Define platform-wide testing strategies across hardware variants.
• Ensure robust release management and backward compatibility.
• Maintain high-quality technical documentation.

Communication Abstraction & Multi-Interface Support

• Design a flexible communication framework supporting USB and CAN/CANopen.
• Implement CAN and CANopen stacks (object dictionary, PDO/SDO mapping, device profiles).
• Isolate protocol-specific layers from motion/control logic.
• Debug issues at physical, protocol, and application layers.

Real-Time Control & Embedded Development

• Develop high-performance embedded firmware in C/C++.
• Ensure accurate timing behavior, stability, and repeatability.
• Implement diagnostics, error handling, and fault recovery mechanisms.
• Optimize CPU load, memory usage, and communication latency.
• Lead code reviews and enforce structured development practices.

Hardware Bring-Up & Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration

• Do firmware bring-up on new controller hardware.
• Collaborate with electronics engineers on hardware–firmware interaction.
• Participate in design reviews focusing on robustness and compatibility.
• Use advanced debugging tools (oscilloscope, logic analyzer, protocol analyzers

Qualifications:

Technical Expertise

• Master’s degree in Electronics Engineering, Embedded Systems, or equivalent experience.
• 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.

Personal Attributes

• System-level thinker with architectural vision.
• Takes ownership of technical platforms.
• Hands‑on, analytical, and pragmatic.
• Strong communicator towards engineers and customers.
• Structured and solution-oriented.

What We Offer

• A dynamic and energetic work environment in a fast-growing scale-up company.
• Opportunities to grow into various roles across engineering, quality, production or sales roles.
• A chance to directly influence product development and customer experience.
• A supportive team culture focused on innovation, ownership, and continuous learning.
• Competitive salary and benefits tailored to your experience and growth potential.