*NEW* Lead Software Engineer, CH, UK, DE

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 (Host SW), based in CH, UK, DE

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
• Direct development experience with Linux persistent memory (pmem)
• NVME memory and cache management experience
• Optimising NUMA architectures via development or enhancement of numacli tool
• DAX and caching services in a hypervisor environment
• Memory Allocation and interleaving design
• Linux memory control error reporting via MCE and EDAC

• Knowledge of communication protocols including TLS, TCP-IP, Ethernet
• Security protocols such as SPDM
• Debugging at application, driver and hardware levels
• Use of modern SW development and test workflows (CI/gitlab/makefile/CMake/TDD etc.)
• Good documentation, presentation and mentoring skills
• Strong motivation for learning new skills and knowledge areas

Useful Experience:

• Exposure to high-speed signalling technologies; PCIe, CXL

• Linux application test, performance and benchmarking experience
• System Modelling with eg. GEM5 and/or QEMU

• Firmware Update approaches and algorithms
• Command-line scripting with bash/sh, object-oriented Python etc.
• Understanding of SerDes technology
• Interfacing to hardware and peripherals: SPI, I3C/SMBus, JTAG, HyperBus/HyperRAM

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!