Firmware Engineer Bare Metal

Kandou Bus SA; India; On-site; INR 700,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Kandou Bus SA is hiring a Firmware Engineer Bare Metal in India to develop and maintain embedded firmware for silicon products. You will test, debug and optimize firmware, interfacing with SPI/I2C/JTAG and supporting silicon design infrastructure across multi-platform environments.

Responsibilities include building robust software, running test suites, and migrating legacy tooling. You should thrive in a dynamic hardware-focused team and drive firmware development forward.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in designing, coding and debugging real-time applications in C/C++ in an embedded environment.
• Experience with a 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 Linux and Windows platforms.
• Experience with modern software development workflows (CI/gitlab/makefile/CMake).
• Independent, self-starter who can drive firmware development forward.

Responsibilities

• Develop, test and maintain embedded firmware for silicon products.
• Ensure robustness of code by implementing and running a software test suite.
• Migrate, consolidate and develop existing silicon debug software.
• Provide software design and support for silicon design infrastructure.

Skills

Embedded C/C++

RTOS

32-bit architecture

SPI/I2C/JTAG

Real-time debugging

Linux/Windows cross-platform

CI/GitLab/Makefile/CMake

Self-starter

Tools

CI/CD tools GitLab

Makefile

CMake

Linux tooling

Job description

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.

Firmware Engineer Bare Metal, based in Hyderabad, Pune 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)

https://www.kandou.ai/