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 Software Engineer, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Overview of the role:

The successful candidate will join the Kandou software team as an individual contributor. They will have responsibility for writing, verifying and maintaining the software used to support our products. In many cases this will be the software tools used by our design engineers and customers to verify, characterize and demonstrate our silicon.

You will have sole ownership – planning, delivering, and maintaining code – for some new projects, created within an existing infrastructure. At other times you will be working on larger projects and within the current team of programmers.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop new features for internal and external SW products
• Contribute to design and architecture of future SW
• Maintain and improve the existing code base
• Ensure code quality via implementation and running of software test suites
• Collaborate with embedded software, lab and digital teams to develop software packages for new silicon products

Essential experience:

• Bachelors’ degree in Computer Science, Electronics or equivalent
• At least 3 years’ experience programming in Python and C/C++
• Interest in and knowledge of algorithms & data structures, object-oriented design, and software patterns.
• Skills in developing GUI-based applications (Qt, GTK, web-based UI)
• Basic knowledge of low-speed HW interfaces such as I2C, SPI, UART and JTAG
• Experience with modern software engineering workflow (CI/CD, git, automated tests)
• Experience with dev Ops systems such as Git Lab, Azure Dev Ops or Git Hub
• Deployment of cross-platform SW products
• Good documentation, organizational and presentational skills
• Strong motivation for learning new skills and acquiring new areas of knowledge

Useful experience:

• Linux kernel driver development and userspace application development
• Experience in SW/HW diagnosis using tools such as logic analyser & oscilloscope

• High speed serial communication using Serialiser/Deserialiser (Ser Des)

• Knowledge of high-speed protocols such as PCIe

• Programming in Embedded Systems environment

• Knowledge, experience or formal training in electronics

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!