Responsibilities
- Lead technical strategy and implementation for RAN software portability across heterogeneous COTS platforms.
- Define portability guardrails, architectural alignments, standards, and reusable platform assets.
- Conduct hands-on end-to-end platform onboarding trials, benchmarking, performance profiling, and system validation.
- Drive AI-assisted and agentic automation for benchmarking and validation.
- Ensure COTS platform readiness for shared infrastructure and multi-workload deployments.
- Mentor distributed engineering teams in cross-platform development and hardware ecosystem adaptation.
- Represent RAN portability in technical forums, architecture reviews, and strategic planning.
- Generate intellectual property and collaborate with academic and research institutions on applied RAN portability research.
Requirements
- Master's degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, or equivalent.
- Minimum 12 years of experience as a systems engineer or research engineer.
- Strong background in communications theory, digital signal processing, and COTS architecture.
- Applied experience with reinforcement learning, federated learning, generative AI, and LLMs.
- Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenStack for virtualization and containerization.
- Experience establishing technical standards, architectural frameworks, and reusable engineering assets.
- Track record of mentoring and leading distributed technical teams across multiple sites.
- Published contributions to industry research, technical forums, or intellectual property portfolios.
- Strong presentation, leadership, analytical, time-management, customer-focus, and cross-cultural collaboration skills.
- Fluent written and verbal English and experience working in international distributed teams.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package with annual bonus eligibility.
- Choice of three medical and dental plan options, with core coverage fully paid by Ericsson.
- Retirement and savings benefits including pension contributions, RRSP matching, and stock purchase plan eligibility.
- Basic life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment coverage, and short-term disability coverage.
- At least 18 accrued vacation days, three personal days, 10 holidays, one volunteer day, and sick days, prorated by start date.
- Up to 10 weeks of paid maternity leave and six weeks of paid parental or adoption leave at 100% of pay.
- Financial wellness programs, educational assistance, matching gifts, wellness account, and recognition programs.
- Full-time position based in Ottawa, Canada.
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