Join Our Team at Kandou
At Kandou, we are driven by challenges and inspired by innovation. Our team, composed of passionate and accomplished professionals, is making a significant impact in the semiconductor industry. As an innovative leader in high-speed and energy-efficient chip-to-chip link solutions, we continually evolve to meet the demands of today's customers while looking forward to the needs of tomorrow. If you are eager to be part of a high-tech scale-up and thrive on pushing your limits and challenging the status quo, we invite you to explore this opportunity.
Key Responsibilities
- Define, architect, develop, and deliver the full software stack, including validation software, embedded firmware, device drivers, system software, SDKs, application-level software, and customer support/demonstration tools.
- Establish and continuously improve robust, scalable software development processes optimized for production environments, ensuring predictable delivery of high-quality, well-documented, secure, and maintainable software releases that meet stringent reliability and performance standards.
- Build and scale software capabilities aligned with the company’s business strategy and product roadmap.
- Engage with customers (internal and external) to understand their goals, strategies, and technical needs, and lead the definition and execution of high-value, quality solutions.
Required Skills
- Deep understanding of end-to-end software solution architecture with a proven track record of delivering complex, production-grade systems that integrate hardware and software across multiple technology domains.
- Expertise in software architectural principles emphasizing modularity, reusability, scalability, and maintainability, along with strong command of modern software development methodologies such as Agile/Scrum, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), automated testing frameworks, and DevOps practices.
- Strong organizational and program management capabilities, able to drive multiple concurrent initiatives, set strategic priorities, manage technical debt, and integrate emerging technologies into complex product roadmaps.
- Excellent cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence technical direction, negotiate priorities with engineering and product teams, and represent software engineering at the executive level.
Experience
- 12+ years of senior-level experience in software engineering within the semiconductor, systems, or hardware technology industry.
- A proven track record of leading geographically distributed multi-disciplinary software teams with direct responsibility for defining software architecture, managing the complete development lifecycle, and delivering production-ready software solutions.
- Deep technical expertise across the software stack, including firmware/embedded systems, device drivers, OS-level programming (Linux, RTOS), hardware abstraction layers, system software, SDK development, API design, application software, and software tools/utilities.
- Experience with high-speed interface technologies (PCIe, CXL, NVMe, Ethernet, or similar protocols) and system-level integration in data center or enterprise computing environments.
- A background in SoC/ASIC development, memory systems, compute accelerators, or data center infrastructure is highly preferred.
If this is the role you have been searching for and you wish to be part of a growing company with an exciting future, we would love to hear from you. Apply online using the form below. Please note that only applications matching the job profile will be considered.
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