# Firmware Engineer Bare Metal at Kandou AI

Firmware Engineer Bare Metal at Kandou AI in Hyderabad and 2 more. Hybrid, full-time. Posted August 19, 2026.

- Company: Kandou AI
- Location: Hyderabad and 2 more
- Workplace: Hybrid
- Job type: Full-time
- Posted: 2026-08-19
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kandou-ai/d1a8773d-8fc4-4b25-8093-bb631e04796f/application
- Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/firmware-engineer-bare-metal-kandou-ai-tcmv2v

## 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.

**We are actively seeking a Firmware Engineer Bare Metal, based in Hyderabad, Pune OR BangaloreResponsibilities:**

- 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

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**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/**