# Software Engineer (Firmware) at Kandou AI

Software Engineer (Firmware) at Kandou AI in Hyderabad. Full-time. Posted September 4, 2026.

- Company: Kandou AI
- Location: Hyderabad
- Job type: Full-time
- Posted: 2026-09-04
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kandou-ai/0b95e17d-d529-4b23-80c9-55c00649a7a5/application
- Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/software-engineer-firmware-kandou-ai-wejtgh

## Description

**Required Competencies - Experience**

- Strong professional experience in firmware development or embedded software development in a RTOS environment.

- Demonstrable experience in porting and use of RTOS; Zephyr, FreeRTOS

- Detailed experience with SoC bring-up, bootloaders, platform initialization, board initialization, peripherals such as PCIe, I2C, SPI, SMBUS, UART.

- Proven experience working with multiple teams on Root cause analysis, troubleshooting, and debugging skills resulting into solving complex Hardware/Firmware interface issues

- Familiarity with PCIe/CXL validation and debugging is a big plus.

- Demonstrable experience of hardware and firmware architecture, design and coding for solutions at scale.

- Experience performing thorough code reviews, unit testing, and documentation.

- Proficiency with modern Software development and test workflows (CI/gitlab/makefile/CMake/TDD etc.)

**Required Competencies - Skills**

- Strong programming skills in **C/C++** for embedded systems. Good understanding of **Linux kernel internals** and driver architecture.

- Solid knowledge of CPU architecture (ex. ARM, ARC, RISC-V), memory map, and register-level programming and debugging

- Demonstrable experience with software development for systems with Linux OS or multi-threaded RTOS environments.

- Good knowledge of bootloaders and boot sequence and Experience in board bring-up and hardware debugging

- Exposure to high-speed signalling technologies: PCIe, CXL

- Exposure to ASIC hardware validation & debugging

- Familiarity with scripting languages (Python/Shell) for automation

- Familiarity with debugging tools: JTAG, UART, Oscilloscope, Logic Analyzer.

- Strong working knowledge of version control tools (Git)

- Good knowledge of Baseboard Management Controller systems; OpenBMC, OpenBIC

- Good understanding of computer architectures including processors, buses, and memories.

- Ability to collaborate with hardware, validation, and application teams for end-to-end integration