Lead DSL Engineer for 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

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.