Language Engineer - Domain‐Specific Languages

Canon Production Printing; Netherlands; Hybrid; EUR 46,000 - 71,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

38 vacation days

13th month bonus (until 2026)

Hybrid working (20%/80%)

Training & development opportunities

Laptop and smartphone

E-bike lease

Job summary

Canon Production Printing in Venlo, the Netherlands, is seeking a Language Engineer specializing in Domain‑Specific Languages to join the Digital Twin Factory within the System-Level Modeling department. You will design, implement, and evolve DSLs to express system structure, behavior, and data relationships for model-based development.

Ideal candidates hold a Master’s in CS or software engineering, strong language engineering experience, and proficiency in Java/JVM.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• 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 usability and semantic rigor.
• Contributing to the overall language and platform architecture with focus on scalability and cross-domain integration.

Skills

Fluent English

Language engineering

Modular / SOA

Team collaboration

Education

Master's degree in computer science or software engineering

Tools

JetBrains MPS

Java/JVM ecosystem

Job description

Language Engineer - Domain‑Specific Languages

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
• 13th month bonus (8.6%) until end of 2026 paid either monthly or yearly. As of 1 January 2027 the 13th-month bonus will be discontinued, which means that as of that date the 13th-month bonus will be fully converted to the (scale) salary.
• 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 interestinglease (e-)bike plan

Career opportunities

For this role we are specifically looking for engineers with the ambition to grow into future technical leaders in language-centric platform development.

You will start your career in the System-Level Modeling department and gain deep exposure to our organization, products, domains, and advanced development infrastructure. You will be given challenging assignments, real ownership of core languages, and support through training, coaching, and mentoring aligned with your technical growth.

This is a foundation-building role with long‑term technical impact on how digital twins are defined, executed, and evolved within Canon Production Printing.

What do we stand for?

We develop and manufacture high-tech printing products and workflow software for the commercial printing market as part of Canon, a global leader in imaging technologies. With around 3,300 employees across three continents and our headquarters in Venlo, the Netherlands, we innovate to create high-quality solutions that add color to the world. Guided by the philosophy of Kyosei—living and working together for the common good—our culture is built on openness, collegiality, trust and stability. We empower our people to grow, take initiative, and make an impact.

With our company values collaboration, innovation and ownership, we strive to bring out the best in each other, expand boundaries and feel empowered to take ownership of our work.

Further information about Canon Production Printing is available at cpp.canon .

Questions about this job?

Jeroen Veugelers, HR, +316 – 34885207 / [e-mail]