Challenges are our drive, innovation our calling. We at Kandou are a team of passionate accomplished professionals making a mark in the semiconductor industry. We're an innovative leader in high-speed and energy-efficient chip-to-chip link solutions critical to the evolution of the electronics 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 Lead Software Engineer, based in CH, UK or US (Bay Area)
This hands-on technical role will involve working with different domain experts both internally and in customers’ engineering teams. You will be both talking about overall product at a high level and and drilling down into detail and addressing low-level problems. You should be comfortable working in a fast-moving High Performance Computing (HPC) environment, and be excited about creating new products with multiple market opportunities.
Responsibilities
Lead the development of Host support software for Kandou’s new silicon products
Specify, design and implement Linux Kernel Drivers and support SDKs
Define and implement Infrastructure for Host driver development to include simulation, modelling, and test of new SoC design
Work with domain experts in IC design to integrate with Silicon development
Ensure code quality via implementation and running of software test suites
Ensure cohesive development between multiple engineers working on a project
Plan and report to management on design approaches, progress, & risks
Essential Experience
5+ years experience in Linux Kernel and Userspace driver design & Implementation
Proficient in Python and C
Interfacing to hardware and peripherals: SPI, I3C/SMBus, JTAG, HyperBus/HyperRAM
NVME memory and cache management experience
Memory Allocation and interleaving design
Debugging at application, driver and hardware levels
Use of modern SW development and test workflows (CI/gitlab/makefile/CMake/TDD etc.)
Exposure to high-speed signalling technologies; PCIe, CXL
Linux application test, performance and benchmarking experience
Command-line scripting with bash/sh, object-oriented Python etc.
Skills in developing GUI-based applications (GTK, Qt, web-based UI)
Good documentation, presentation and mentoring skills
Strong motivation for learning new skills and knowledge areas
Useful Experience
System Modelling with eg. GEM5 and/or QEMU
Understanding of SerDes technology
Direct development experience with Linux persistent memory (pmem)
Knowledge of communication protocols including TLS, TCP-IP, Ethernet
Security protocols such as SPDM
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 love to hear from you. Together We Kandou It!
Visit us at www.kandou.ai and https://www.linkedin.com/company/kandou-ai/
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