Cloud Native 5G RAN - Junior Developer for NR L2 Baseband

Why is Ericsson a good place to work?


Ericsson enables communications service providers to capture the full value of connectivity. The company’s portfolio spans Networks, Digital Services, Managed Services, and Emerging Business and is designed to help our customers go digital, increase efficiency, find new revenue streams, and create new user experiences. Ericsson’s investments in innovation have delivered the benefits of telephony and mobile broadband to billions of people around the world ensuring our solutions – and our customers – are at the forefront of innovation. We support networks that connect more than 2.5 billion subscribers. With over 100,000 employees and customers in 180 countries, we combine global scale with technology and service leadership. 40 percent of the world’s mobile traffic is carried over an Ericsson network. And, our Technology for Good and Connect to Learn programs include creating technology that makes it easier to save lives, feed societies, bring technology to emerging markets and connectivity to remote areas, and grow businesses and prosperity.


At Ericsson, we give our employees the freedom to think big and navigate their career, on a global scale. We create technology that helps others, from helping people enjoy their favourite content to helping people recover from natural disasters by enabling better communications between rescue workers. Your ideas and innovations can turn into achievements that impact society and change the world, creating new connections, new possibilities, and new capabilities. We find that Ericsson is at its best when we bring together the diverse skills of our people. Working across business areas, across cultures, across geographical borders, across technical disciplines. More often than not, across ground-breaking solutions. Next generation technology can be staggeringly complex. But the simpler it is to use; the more people benefit from it. Join us and help build technology that makes it simple to connect with information, business, societies, and each other.
Our Exciting Opportunity
We are a newly formed organization within Business Unit Networks that seeks to work closely with our customers, passionate about delivery of virtualized Radio Access Network (RAN) solutions.

We try to accelerate the product development with new fresh thinking. We challenge the established flow with new methodologies and are active in the open-source communities.
Full stack virtualization of the 5G New Radio (NR) Control Unit (CU) and Digital Unit (DU)
Centralized Radio Access Network (CRAN) & Distribute Radio Access Network (DRAN) configurations
COTS HW including L1 accelerators where needed
Cloud Native infrastructure
Open interfaces (e.g F1, X2/Xn, A1, 01, LLS…)
Architecture for automation, AI and machine learning


We are now looking for enthusiastic and skilled Junior Developers to join the team!

You will
Actively participate in the software development for Cloud Native baseband products.
Be able to deliver scalability, resilience and performance by taking full advantage of the evolving architecture and services inherent to a Cloud Native Platform.
Strive for delivery of product and test code with all the advantages of a DevOps infrastructure.


To be successful in the role you need have
Good communication and presentation skills
A collaborative approach which makes you a phenomenal teammate
Bachelor´s or Master´s degree level in a Software related field
Solid skills in one of the following programming languages: C/C++/Python


Additional qualifications
Ability to develop and deploy Embedded type of SW, on a COTS HW. (COTS meaning x86, AMD, GPU or other HW, which can be deployed in a Cloud environment.)
Good understanding of Linux and able to use DPDK and smart Network Interface cards (smart NIC) to optimize the data processing path.
Understand concepts like Docker containers, Kubernetes deployment, Helm charts and canary deployment.
Experience of Cloud Native Development Pipeline principles and tools – CI/CD (DevOps), Jenkins, Spinnaker is an asset.
Knowledge in 5G NR and LTE 3GPP standards.
Experience on test automation

Do you believe that an organization fostering an environment of cooperation and collaboration to execute with speed creates better business value? Do you value a culture of humanness, where fact based decisions are important and our people are encouraged to speak up? Do you believe that diverse, inclusive teams drive performance and innovation? At Ericsson, we do.
We provide equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, transgender status, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, pregnancy, parental status, religion, political opinion, nationality, ethnic background, social origin, social status, indigenous status, disability, age, union membership or employee representation and any other characteristic protected by local law or Ericsson’s Code of Business Ethics.

Recruiter: Suman Thakur, suman.thakur@ericsson.com

Please send in your application in English as soon as possible since the process is ongoing.

Primary country and city: Sweden (SE) || || Stockholm || [[mfield2]]
Req ID: 588953