APPLIED AI SOFTWARE DESIGNER

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About the Opportunity

At Ericsson, we are transforming how large-scale software systems are understood, designed, developed, tested, and maintained through Generative AI and agentic software engineering.

We are seeking an Applied AI Software Designer with 2–4 years of software engineering experience and hands-on experience applying AI to developer workflows. You will use Large Language Models (LLMs), AI agents, knowledge systems, and software-analysis tools to enable agentic design and development across large, complex existing codebases.

You will build practical AI-driven engineering solutions, reusable tools, and knowledge foundations that improve developer productivity, software quality, and engineering efficiency across Ericsson's 5G/6G systems. Working closely with software developers, architects, AI specialists, and domain experts, you will help turn emerging AI capabilities into reliable, secure, and reusable engineering solutions.

What you will do:

Agentic Software Engineering & Code Understanding

• Design and develop agentic workflows covering feature design, code implementation, debugging, test generation, code review, refactoring, documentation, and impact analysis.

• Build RAG, context engineering, and knowledge engineering solutions that provide agents with relevant source code, architecture, requirements, documentation, and domain knowledge.

• Combine LLM-based reasoning with deterministic software analysis, including code indexing, dependency analysis, call relationships, static analysis, and code graphs.

• Integrate coding agents with source control, CI/CD pipelines, testing environments, APIs, and engineering knowledge sources using tool calling, MCP, and specialized agents where appropriate.

• Develop validation approaches for AI-generated code and engineering outputs, addressing correctness, grounding, traceability, and reliability.

• Identify high-value engineering use cases, prototype solutions, evaluate their impact on development efficiency and quality, and productionize successful approaches.

• Measure the usability, adoption, and impact of these solutions on development efficiency and software quality.

AI Developer Tools and Reusable Engineering Foundations

• Develop reusable AI tools, components, agent workflows, and integration patterns that can be adopted across multiple engineering teams.

• Integrate AI capabilities into developer environments, coding assistants, repositories, and existing engineering workflows.

• Contribute to the development of AI-enabled developer platforms, tool registries, knowledge services, and agentic development environments.

• Identify opportunities to improve software reuse, reduce duplicated engineering effort, and standardize effective AI-assisted development practices.

• Apply these capabilities to large-scale C/C++ and Python systems, considering complex architectures, interfaces, dependencies, and cross-component interactions.

Quality, Security and Responsible AI Engineering

• Develop repeatable benchmarks and evaluation methods to assess AI agent accuracy, reliability, and effectiveness across representative engineering tasks.

• Analyze agent failures and knowledge gaps, and improve context, retrieval, tools, and workflows through iterative experimentation.

• Integrate appropriate security, access-control, data-protection, intellectual-property, and compliance considerations into AI-enabled engineering workflows.

• Apply software quality practices, automated testing, and CI/CD integration to validate AI-generated outputs and maintain reliable engineering solutions.

• Contribute to reusable standards and guardrails that support safe, consistent, and responsible AI adoption.

Collaboration, Adoption and Continuous Improvement

• Collaborate with developers, architects, AI specialists, and domain experts to identify high-value use cases and translate engineering needs into practical solutions.

• Evaluate and measure the impact of AI-driven workflows on development productivity, software quality, engineering effort, and developer experience.

• Gather feedback from users and continuously improve the usability, reliability, and adoption of AI-enabled tools.

• Contribute to the design and development of AI-native applications for 5G/6G systems.

The skills you bring:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, AI/ML, or a related technical field.

• 2–5 years of software engineering experience developing embedded software for wireless Layer 2 (L2) protocol stacks in 3GPP-based cellular systems, particularly 5G/6G baseband platforms.

• Strong programming skills in C/C++ and Python.

• Practical experience with RAG, context engineering, or knowledge engineering for AI-assisted development.

• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including architecture, code design, testing, debugging, version control, CI/CD, and code review.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.

• Hands-on experience building and integrating agentic workflows for software engineering.

• Experience deploying and supporting AI-enabled tools in production engineering environments.

• Experience evaluating coding agents and LLM-generated outputs for correctness, reliability, and task completion.

• Knowledge of telecommunications, RAN, 5G/6G is an asset.

• Familiarity with 3GPP specifications relevant to 5G NR and RAN software development.

• 2–5 years of software engineering experience developing embedded software for wireless Layer 2 (L2) protocol stacks in 3GPP-based cellular systems, particularly 5G/6G baseband platforms

What We Offer

• Opportunity to shape how AI and coding agents are used in large-scale production software engineering.

• Hands-on work with real engineering challenges that go beyond standalone code generation, including architecture, dependencies, design intent, and domain knowledge.

• Collaboration with experienced engineers, architects, AI specialists, and global R&D teams.

• Exposure to telecom software platforms and emerging 5G and 6G systems.

• Continuous learning and long-term career development in applied AI, agentic engineering, software architecture, and developer tooling.

Why Join Us

Help bring agentic software engineering into real-world development at scale. If you are passionate about applying AI to the challenges of understanding and evolving complex software, we encourage you to join our team.

Why join Ericsson?

At Ericsson, you´ll have an outstanding opportunity. The chance to use your skills and imagination to push the boundaries of what´s possible. To build solutions never seen before to some of the world’s toughest problems. You´ll be challenged, but you won’t be alone. You´ll be joining a team of diverse innovators, all driven to go beyond the status quo to craft what comes next.

What happens once you apply? Click Here to find all you need to know about what our typical hiring process looks like.

Ericsson uses a merit-based hiring approach that values people with different experiences, perspectives and skillsets. We truly believe this approach drives innovation, which is essential for our future growth. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and realize their full potential as part of our Ericsson team. Ericsson is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer, learn more.

If you need assistance or to request an accommodation due to a disability, please contact Ericsson at hr.direct.americas@ericsson.com.

DISCLAIMER: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees in this position. They are not an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required for this position, and you may be required to perform additional job tasks as assigned.

Primary country and city: Canada (CA) || Ottawa (Country/ City)

Job details: Developer

Compensation and Benefits at Ericsson

At Ericsson, we know that our people are the key to our success. We offer a competitive package to help with your individual needs and goals.

Your Pay

The salary offered is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, location, and the candidate’s combination of job-related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience.

The salary range for this position is

• Ottawa: $85,000CAD - $111,300CAD

Short-Term Variable Compensation Plan: Your pay also includes the opportunity for an annual bonus. Actual bonus payouts are based on performance of the business against the unit’s objectives, individual performance, and the individual bonus target. Certain eligibility and pro-ration rules apply.

Your Health

Ericsson offers excellent health benefits including the choice of 3 medical and dental plan options that allow an employee to select the level of coverage that suits their needs. Core level coverage is paid for fully by Ericsson.

Your Financial Security

We invest in both your short and long-term financial wellbeing. Ericsson’s Group Retirement & Savings Program offers an automatic 2% company contribution into the Pension Plan. Ericsson also offers a 50% match of employee’s contribution into the Registered Retirement Savings Plan, up to 8% of the employee’s contribution (maximum of 4% match). This leads to a total company contribution potential of 6%. Employees will also basic life insurance and basic accidental death and dismemberment coverage at two-times annual base pay at no cost, as well as short-term disability coverage. Employees also have the option to participate in Ericsson’s Stock Purchase Plan.

Your Time

Your work-life balance is important to us. New employees are provided a minimum of 18 days of accrued vacation, at least 3personal days, minimum 10 holidays, 1 volunteer day, and sick days. Please note paid time off is pro-rated based on the employee’s start date. Furthermore, Ericsson provides up to 10 weeks of paid maternity leave and 6 weeks of parental or adoption leave at 100% of pay.

Additional Benefits

Ericsson offers many other company-paid benefits such as financial wellness programs, educational assistance, matching gifts, wellness account, and recognition programs.