PLC Software Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 11, 2026. First seen by Alion on Jun 17, 2026. Nearfield Instruments scores D on the Alion truth index.
At Nearfield Instruments we're looking for a PLC Software Engineer to join our team.
About Nearfield Instruments
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. 320 employees) in science and technology and develop a one-of-a-kind, revolutionary high throughput Scanning Probe Microscopy system.
What will you be doing?
As PLC Software Engineer you develop, test, integrate and qualify the entire software stack of our machine. From low level embedded control to high level user interface and communication with the factory. You will help in designing, developing and maintaining functionality of the PLC layer. Our PLC stack is based on an EtherCat network controlled by a Beckhoff master PLC.
Besides this you will be responsible for, but not limited to:
Design, configure, program, test, implement and / or manage PLC control systems and applications;
Drafting, reviewing and / or improving technical and functional documentation;
Identifying, solving and reporting problems in the field of control software;
Participate in integration of various subsystems of the machine.
Why is the position interesting for you?
You have the ability to quickly acquire technical knowledge from documentation and on-the-job training and be capable of thoroughly investigating technical issues;
High appreciation from the organization for your expertise;
You like to work with Beckhoff PLC (Soft and Safety), TwinCat 3 and mechatronic systems.
Where you will be working?
Within our Design & Engineering department this role is part of the Software Group. This SW Group consists of 5 teams (Architectural, Machine Control, Device Control, Data Science, Integration & Support).
Your focus will be the Device Control where you help developing control algorithms and support in PLC choices.
Requirements
What are we looking for?
3+ years’ PLC Software development, OOP Design/Architecture, Safety Applications, SW Testing, SW Integration;
Design/Platforms: OOP Design, Codesys, Beckhoff; TwinCAT
Industrial Communication protocols such as EtherCAT, CanOpen, RS232/RS485 Serial Comm, TCP/IP, OPC-UA;
Coding: Structured Text, Instruction List (advantage: LD, SFC, FBD);
Source Control and Configuration: Git, CI/CD.
Apply for the job
If the above challenges excites you, we encourage you to send us your details using the Apply now button on our career site.
Our recruitment process:
Screening by Recruiter;
1st interview;
2nd interview;
Meeting our CEO;
Offer
Onboarding and welcome at Nearfield Instruments!
Recruitment, consultancy and/or other agency?
We appreciate the interest, but we source all our candidates directly. We understand that you as an intermediary want to present candidates to our interesting positions. This is not how we have structured our recruitment.
This means that all profiles offered to Nearfield Instruments will be treated as direct applications. Unless we have explicitly agreed otherwise.