Firmware Contractors

Firmware Engineer (6-month contract) in Lausanne.

Challenges are our drive, innovation our calling. We at Kandou are a team of passionate accomplished professionals making a mark in the semiconductor industry, continuously developing to meet the demands of not just the customers of today, but of tomorrow too. If you love to be part of a high-tech scale-up and are motivated by pushing your limits and challenging the status quo, we have an opportunity for you.

We are actively seeking a Firmware Engineer Contractor based in CH.

• 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

• Strong experience in designing, coding and debugging real-time applications in C and/or C++ in an 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

• 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 Ser Des technology
• Hardware interfacing and electronics knowledge
• Network programming 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)