Software Engineer (Firmware) Lead

At Kandou , we are redefining the economics of AI infrastructure. Our mission is to democratise AI by significantly reducing the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of hardware systems — a critical barrier to scalable adoption.

Our proprietary MIMO-over-copper technology powers a high-performance, chiplet-based AI memory fabric that is both scalable and energy-efficient . Unlike traditional interconnects, our solution reduces power consumption significantly while preserving high bandwidth and ultra-low latency — unlocking unprecedented efficiency for AI training and inference at scale.

Kandou’s architecture is not just an incremental improvement — it’s a foundational shift in how AI hardware is built for the future.

We are actively seeking a Software Engineer (Firmware) Lead, based in Hyderabad OR Bangalore

Responsibilities

• Work to develop, test and maintain embedded firmware for silicon products.

• Ensuring the robustness of code by implementing and running a software test suite

• Migration, consolidation and development of existing silicon debug software

• Software design and support for our silicon design infrastructure

• Essential Experience:

• Strong experience in designing, coding and debugging real-time applications in C and/or C++ in a embedded environment

• Experience in using or implementing Real-Time scheduler or RTOS

• Knowledge of 32-bit processor architecture

• Interfacing to hardware and peripherals: SPI, I2C/SMBus, JTAG

• Debugging at application and hardware level

• Appreciation of Software validation and verification techniques

• Ability to develop under different platforms (Linux, Windows)

• Use of modern SW development workflows (CI/gitlab/makefile/CMake etc.)

• Independent, self starter who can help drive the firmware development forward.

• Useful Experience:

• Development in a modern high-level scripting language (e.g. Python, Lua).

• Experience interfacing to flash memory, including in-field update techniques

• Appreciation of Cryptographic algorithms and disciplines

• Knowledge of SerDes technology

• Hardware interfacing and electronics knowledge

• Network programming experience

• Experience:

• Experience working in a team

• Experience in embedded C/C++

• Experience coding a low-level microprocessor or microcontroller

• Experience optimizing low level code to meet real-time performance targets

• Experience programming in interpreted object-oriented high-level languages (e.g. Python)

• Experience working and programming on multiple platforms (e.g. Unix, Linux, Window and OSX)

• If this is the role you have been looking for and you want to be part of a growing Company, with an exciting future then we would really love to hear from you. Together We Kandou It!

• https://www.kandou.ai/