Medior Embedded Firmware Engineer — Measurement & Sensors

VPInstruments; Netherlands; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Travel expense reimbursement

Pension plan

Sports activities contribution

Profit-sharing scheme

24 holidays + 4 ADV days

Job summary

VPInstruments is expanding its R&D team in Delft to hire a Medior Embedded Software Engineer who blends software and physics to develop measurement instruments for industrial applications.

You will spend about 70% on embedded firmware and the rest on lightweight desktop tools and scripts, collaborating with a small, motivated team to deliver accurate measurements and robust software in production environments.

Qualifications

• Degree in Embedded Systems or similar engineering field.
• Hands-on embedded C/C++ development experience.
• Solid intuition for physics behind sensors and measurements.
• Experience with microcontrollers and embedded tooling (git, CMake, unit testing).

Responsibilities

• Develop embedded firmware (C/C++) for measurement instruments, including signal processing and calibration.
• Integrate sensors via I2C, SPI, RS485, Modbus.
• Collaborate with R&D to validate measurements and improve performance.
• Build Qt/QML desktop tools and Python scripts for configuration and diagnostics.

Skills

Embedded C/C++

Physics intuition

English communication

Microcontroller experience

Education

Degree in Embedded Systems

Electrical Engineering

Computer Science

Applied Physics

Tools

Git

CMake

Unit testing

Qt/QML

Python

RTOS

MATLAB

Job description

VPInstruments is expanding its R&D team in Delft to hire a Medior Embedded Software Engineer who blends software and physics to develop measurement instruments for industrial applications.

You will spend about 70% on embedded firmware and the rest on lightweight desktop tools and scripts, collaborating with a small, motivated team to deliver accurate measurements and robust software in production environments.