Senior Software Engineer Firmware

Company Description Kandou AI, founded in 2011 as part of the Kandou group, is an innovative leader in high-speed, energy-efficient chip-to-chip link solutions that are critical to the evolution of the electronics industry. By licensing disruptive technologies and delivering standard products, Kandou enables everyday devices to become smaller, more power-efficient, and more cost-effective. The company's strong IP portfolio includes Chord™ signaling, which has been adopted into industry specifications by JEDEC and the OIF, reflecting its impact on next-generation interconnect standards. These innovations significantly reduce power consumption and improve chip-link performance, unlocking new capabilities for customer devices and systems. Kandou is a fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, with offices in Europe, North America, and Asia, and growing engineering hubs such as Hyderabad.

Required Competencies - Experience

• Strong professional experience in firmware development or embedded software development in a RTOS environment.
• Demonstrable experience in porting and use of RTOS; Zephyr, FreeRTOS
• Detailed experience with SoC bring-up, bootloaders, platform initialization, board initialization, peripherals such as PCIe, I2C, SPI, SMBUS, UART.
• Proven experience working with multiple teams on Root cause analysis, troubleshooting, and debugging skills resulting into solving complex Hardware/Firmware interface issues
• Familiarity with PCIe/CXL validation and debugging is a big plus.
• Demonstrable experience of hardware and firmware architecture, design and coding for solutions at scale.
• Experience performing thorough code reviews, unit testing, and documentation.
• Proficiency with modern Software development and test workflows (CI/gitlab/makefile/CMake/TDD etc.)

Required Competencies - Skills

• Strong programming skills in C/C++ for embedded systems. Good understanding of Linux kernel internals and driver architecture.
• Solid knowledge of CPU architecture (ex. ARM, ARC, RISC-V), memory map, and register-level programming and debugging
• Demonstrable experience with software development for systems with Linux OS or multi-threaded RTOS environments.
• Good knowledge of bootloaders and boot sequence and Experience in board bring-up and hardware debugging
• Exposure to high-speed signalling technologies: PCIe, CXL
• Exposure to ASIC hardware validation & debugging
• Familiarity with scripting languages (Python/Shell) for automation
• Familiarity with debugging tools: JTAG, UART, Oscilloscope, Logic Analyzer.
• Strong working knowledge of version control tools (Git)
• Good knowledge of Baseboard Management Controller systems; OpenBMC, OpenBIC
• Good understanding of computer architectures including processors, buses, and memories.
• Ability to collaborate with hardware, validation, and application teams for end-to-end integration