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 for an Embedded Software (FW) Engineer
Location: Reading (UK), Lausanne (CH)
Responsibility
Develop, test and maintain Embedded Software for Kandou AI’s new ASIC products
Real-time Firmware design on high-speed heterogeneous SoC platform
Work with Architects and Lead engineers to design and implement according to system and module specifications
Software design and support for our silicon design infrastructure and workflow
Participate in and promote current best practices in test, review, integration, automation and delivery of quality software products
Skills
Working with Heterogeneous multicore systems, including both scalar and vector processors
Real-world experience of high-speed signalling technologies: PCIe, CXL — particularly link training, equalization and retimer/redriver interaction with host and device PHYs
Firmware development for Active Electrical Cable (AEC) or retimer/redriver ASICs: cable diagnostics, eye margin monitoring, temperature/voltage telemetry and power-state management
Memory and network interfacing, virtual memory, simulation and co-simulation
Firmware Update approaches and algorithms
Use of simulation and/or FPGAs for pre-silicon development
Understanding of SerDes technology and PHY register-level tuning
Experience
7+ years' experience in designing, coding and debugging real-time applications in C and/or C++ in an embedded environment
Experience in porting and use of RTOS: Zephyr(preferred), FreeRTOS etc.
Knowledge of RISC-V CPU architecture; experience writing bare-metal or RTOS-based firmware targeting RISC-V cores (RV32/RV64)
Board and SoC bring-up with JTAG and other debug mechanisms
FW Update, bootloaders, secure boot
Debugging at application, driver and hardware levels
Interfacing to hardware and peripherals: UART, SPI, I2C/SMBus, I3C
Commitment to use of modern SW development and test workflow tools (CI / GitLab / Makefile / CMake / TDD etc.)
Knowledge of management and sideband protocols including SMBus, I3C, MCTP, CMIS
