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Firmware Engineer

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Compen Embedded is an early-stage startup headquartered at the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, providing cutting-edge technological solutions to medical device startups driving neuroscience innovation across Europe and the United States.

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About Us

Compen Embedded is an early-stage startup headquartered at the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, providing cutting-edge technological solutions to medical device startups driving neuroscience innovation across Europe and the United States. Our mission is to help them overcome firmware challenges and fast-track the delivery of life-changing breakthroughs.

The Role

As a Medior Firmware Engineer working on internal projects, you’ll help design and build the firmware foundations that power our own medical-device technologies. You’ll work closely with senior engineers, contribute to architecture and implementation, and take ownership of well-defined parts of the system while growing toward more independent technical leadership.

This is an on-site role, to be considered, applicants must currently reside in the Netherlands and hold valid work authorization; sponsorship is not available for this role.

 

You’ll be doing things like:

  • Contribute to the architecture, design, and implementation of real-time firmware in modern C++ for our internal medical-device platforms
  • Apply medical-device standards such as ISO 13485, IEC 62304, and ISO 14971 throughout development
  • Help define and execute verification and validation activities, including unit tests, integration tests, and traceability
  • Investigate and debug firmware issues in a structured, reproducible way
  • Support the development of internal documentation, engineering processes, and long-term technical direction at Compen Embedded

You might be a great fit if you…

  • Care about building technology that directly affects patient safety and outcomes
  • Hold a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, ideally with strong academic distinction (e.g., magna cum laude)
  • Have solid experience in embedded development, ideally in regulated or safety-critical environments
  • Communicate clearly, collaborate well, and enjoy working in a team that values trust and ownership
  • Feel comfortable switching between internal projects and adapting to different technical contexts
  • Understand microcontrollers, low-power design, real-time constraints, and hardware-software interaction
  • Can prototype, read and reason about digital and analog circuit diagrams
  • Enjoy working in a Unix CLI environment with tools like Neovim, tmux, and Docker
  • Appreciate the autonomy and responsibility that come with contributing to internal product development