Product Owner : Embedded Software Development
📌Rotterdam, Netherlands 🇳🇱
⏱︎ full-time
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Product Owner : Embedded Software Development
At Nearfield Instruments we're looking for a Product Owner : Embedded Software Development to join our team.
Full-time
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Rotterdam
What You’re Going To Do
Our Embedded Software team is part of a larger Software group within the Design & Engineering department. The Software group creates the business logic, embedded software and firmware as well as PLC control software for our machines. You will be the product owner for this team of 8 young and talented Embedded Software Engineers.
This is what you’ll do:
- Define and prioritize the product backlog for embedded software, aligning with overall product roadmap and business goals.
- Work closely with applications engineering, product marketing and customers support teams to prioritize and translate customer wishes into product backlog items and acceptance criteria.
- Collaborate with other disciplines (such as mechatronics, production, systems engineering) to define functional and non-functional software requirements and coordinate dependencies.
- Participate in sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives, ensuring delivery of high-quality software on time.
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Support validation, verification, and integration activities on test benches and actual semiconductor equipment.
At Nearfield Instruments, you’ll be joining the most creative minds in science and technology from all over the world. We share a drive and have the potential to become the leading metrology instruments manufacturer. This is your chance to visibly contribute to growing our company and building revolutionary machines for the global semiconductor industry. The benefits we offer include:
- A salary matching your skills, expertise and experience.
- A one-year contract, which we hope to convert into a permanent contract.
- Benefits like a good pension scheme, a commuting allowance, and a discount on your health insurance.
- A holiday allowance of 8% and plenty of time to relax with 30 days of annual leave, based on a 40-hour week.
- An engaging onboarding program and a buddy to mentor you, so you can start with confidence.
- Unrivalled on-the-job training as you’ll be working with the industry’s top scientists, developing technology that doesn’t yet exist. And lots of opportunities to grow your career at our fast-paced and rapidly growing scale-up.
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An open and transparent working environment: we listen to you and empower you to take initiative and get the job done in the way that works best for you.
You to recognize yourself in the profile as described below.
- Demonstrated 3+ years of experience product ownership in a high-tech industrial domain.
- 3+ years of experience as a senior embedded software engineer.
- Bachelor or masters level degree in Embedded Systems, Computer Engineering or related studies.
- Experience working in a multi-disciplinary and fast-moving engineering environment, being in contact with customers, suppliers and the other engineers.
- Proven experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
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Strong command of written and spoken English, as English is our main language.
Do you want to join our team as our new Product Owner : Embedded Software Development? Then we'd love to hear about you!
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Nearfield Instruments (NFI) is a fast-growing scale-up high-tech company. We design, develop, integrate, market and service advanced metrology machines. Our machines enables our customers - the world’s leading chipmakers – to increase the production yields, and thus, functionality of their microchips, which in turn leads to smaller, more powerful consumer electronics. Founded in 2016, we bring together the most creative minds (approx. 190 employees) in science and technology and develop a one-of-a-kind, revolutionary high throughput Scanning Probe Microscopy system.
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Senior Embedded Software Engineer
@ Embedd 
What we're looking for
At embedd.it, we power hardware-software integration in embedded devices. We turn fragmented semiconductor chip data into configurable digital twins, then deterministically generate code, tests, and documentation – making integration faster, cheaper, and resilient to supply chain shocks.
We’re looking for a true legend – someone with abstract thinking and deep expertise in low-level software development. You’ll build vendor-agnostic tooling for MCU and peripheral integration to solve hardware-software integration once and for all. We work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generation, compilers, and machine learning. It’s your chance to help redefine how low-level development is done.
Responsibilities
- Drive the architecture of the driver structures and system layout
- Define scalable patterns for cross-architectural integration across bare-metal, Zephyr, Linux, and other environments
- Deconstruct complex SoC device trees and translate hardware descriptions into structured internal models for automated reasoning
- Partner with the ML team to shape data and annotation models for AI-driven data-extraction tooling
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in embedded systems development, including bare-metal and RTOS-based systems
- Proficiency in C/C++
- Familiarity with firmware configuration, SoC bring-up, and system-level debugging
- Hands-on experience with code generation tools, or low-level compiler/decompiler/emulator technologies
- Strong background in embedded toolchains: compilers, linkers, debuggers, and build systems
- Python or scripting for automation and tooling is a plus
- Experience with functional-safety standards is a plus
Why embedd.it?
- Dynamic, venture-backed team of engineers challenging the status quo 🚀
- Work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generators, compilers, and ML 🤖
- Unusual challenges requiring out-of-the-box abstract thinking 🧠
- Competitive compensation: cash + equity 💰
- Remote work possible 🌍
About Us
embedd.it is a UK-based startup reinventing embedded development. Our platform transforms unstructured semiconductor data into structured digital twins, enabling automatic generation of drivers, tests, and documentation. We're building a single, traceable source of truth to make integration fast, vendor-agnostic, and future-proof.
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