Responsibilities
- Lead technical strategy and implementation for RAN software portability across heterogeneous COTS platforms.
- Establish portability guardrails, architectural alignments, standards, and reusable platform assets.
- Conduct hands-on platform onboarding trials, benchmarking, performance profiling, and end-to-end validation.
- Ensure platform readiness for multi-workload deployments on shared infrastructure.
- Promote AI-assisted and agentic automation for benchmarking and validation.
- Mentor distributed engineering teams and advise on 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.
- At least 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 virtualization and containerization technologies.
- Experience with platform benchmarking, performance profiling, end-to-end system validation, technical standards, architectural frameworks, and reusable engineering assets.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor and lead distributed technical teams across multiple sites.
- Published contributions to industry research, technical forums, or intellectual property portfolios.
- Experience working in Agile development environments and international distributed teams.
- Strong presentation, leadership, analytical, communication, project delivery, and cross-cultural collaboration skills; fluency in English is required.
Benefits
- Ottawa-based position with a stated base salary range of $169,500-$222,600 and eligibility for annual short-term variable compensation.
- Three medical and dental plan options are available, with core coverage fully paid by Ericsson.
- Group retirement and savings benefits include a 2% pension contribution and RRSP matching of up to 4%.
- Company-paid basic life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment coverage, and short-term disability coverage are provided.
- Employees receive at least 18 vacation days, 3 personal days, 10 holidays, 1 volunteer day, and sick days, prorated based on start date.
- The company provides up to 10 weeks of paid maternity leave and 6 weeks of paid parental or adoption leave at 100% of pay.
- Additional benefits include financial wellness programs, educational assistance, matching gifts, a wellness account, recognition programs, and an employee stock purchase plan.
- The role is located in Ottawa, Canada; disability accommodations are available through Ericsson.
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