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Kandou AI

Firmware Engineer Bare Metal

Hyderabad
Level
Mid
Work type
Hybrid · Hyderabad

Not stated in the posting: salary, visa.

Open. First seen 22 October 2026.

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About the role

Kandou AI's standard text

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, 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)

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/

What this role asks for

Particular to this role

CMake · GitLab · Linux · Lua · Unix

Rare in Kandou AI's other 33 open postings.

Standard for embedded / hardware roles

C++ · Embedded Systems · Python

Common in embedded / hardware postings at any company.

78% of this description is written for the role. The rest is Kandou AI's standard text, folded away below.

Compared with Kandou AI's other open jobs.

The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY

This role is one of 15 open in Engineering. 5 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in August: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

Python (11 of 15), C (8 of 15), C++ (7 of 15), Embedded Systems (7 of 15), RTOS (5 of 15), CMake (3 of 15), FPGA (3 of 15)

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