At Kandou, we are rede ning the economics of AI infrastructure. Our mission is to democratise AI by signi cantly 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-productive. Unlike traditional interconnects, our solution reduces power consumption signi cantly 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 Firmware Engineer Bare Metal, 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)

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📌 Firmware Engineer Bare Metal - Hyderabad or Pune
🏢 Kandou AI
📍 Hyderabad