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 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)

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/

Firmware Engineer Bare Metal - Hyderabad or Pune