Firmware Contractors - Lausanne

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. We're an innovative leader in high-speed and energy efficient chip-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 Firmware Engineer Contractor based in CH.
 
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
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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)