Firmware Contractors, 6 months contract CH

kandou· RnD
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📍 Hybrid📍 Saint-Sulpice, Switzerland6 Months contract

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Firmware Engineer (6-month contract) in Lausanne. 3 days on site per week.


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

Essential Experience:

  • 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 (ideally Zephyr OS)
  • Interfacing to hardware and peripherals: SPI, I2C/SMBus, JTAG, UART
  • Debugging at application and hardware level
  • Software validation and verification techniques
  • Ability to develop under different platforms (Linux, Windows)
  • Use of modern SW development workflows (CI/CD with GitLab or GitHub)
  • Independent, self-starter who can help drive the firmware development forward.
  • Experience coding and optimizing low-level drivers


Useful Experience:

  • Python script development for prototyping, test and validation.
  • Experience with systems using multiple MCUs, with FW-to-FW communication and synchronization
  • Hardware interfacing and electronics knowledge
  • Knowledge of RISCV 32-bit processor architecture
  • Knowledge of SerDes technology is a plus
  • Knowledge of signal processing and algorithms is a plus



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