Language Engineer for Domain DSLs & Digital Twin Platform

Canon Production Printing; Venlo; On-site; EUR 46,492 - 70,843; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working 20% / On location 80%

38 vacation days

13th month pay (8.6%)

Commuting allowance

Training and development opportunities

Laptop and smartphone

Lease (e-)bike plan

Job summary

Canon Production Printing in Venlo (NL) is seeking a Language Engineer – Domain Specific Languages to design, implement and evolve DSLs that capture domain knowledge and data semantics for R&D engineering teams. You will work within the Digital Twin Factory initiative in the System-Level Modeling department, delivering precise languages for model-based product development.

You’ll collaborate with system architects, designers and software engineers to align language concepts with data and

Qualifications

• 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.

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

Skills

Language engineering

OO analysis

Modular architectures

Semantics reasoning

Fluent English

Education

Master's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

JetBrains MPS

Java/JVM

Job description

Canon Production Printing in Venlo (NL) is seeking a Language Engineer – Domain Specific Languages to design, implement and evolve DSLs that capture domain knowledge and data semantics for R&D engineering teams. You will work within the Digital Twin Factory initiative in the System-Level Modeling department, delivering precise languages for model-based product development.

You’ll collaborate with system architects, designers and software engineers to align language concepts with data and