Sr Principal Developer - Baseband SW (580722)

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.

As the tech firm that created the mobile world, and with more than 54,000 patents to our name, we’ve made it our business to make a mark. When joining our team at Ericsson you are empowered to learn, lead and perform at your best, shaping the future of technology. This is a place where you're welcomed as your own perfectly unique self, and celebrated for the skills, talent, and perspective you bring to the team. Are you in?

Come, and be where it begins.

Our Exciting Opportunity
The holder of the position is responsible for driving architecture evolution of baseband SW deployment to enable future and current products with high quality, scalability, flexibility, and speed in product development. The tasks include systemization as well as planning and implementation.

You will
This role is the global technical leader of leaders within baseband SW application development. The SW development community is large; thousands of developers spread out in different time zones.
SW architects and sub-domains within baseband have a level of freedom within their domains. This role, however, has the overall authority to decide on baseband SW application regarding:
SW design patterns
Build configurations
Communication mechanism
Setting requirements on platforms
Setting requirement of SW build systems.


This role is a technology leadership role responsible for producing abstractions, concepts, and innovations, but also own implementation work with high quality. This role supports all development programs and baseband product domains with architecture, implementation competence and decisions within the area of deployment.

In large scale product development, the architecture impact on development flow is substantial. The architect role is hence responsible for understanding and actively work to drive the SW architecture towards development efficiency and flow by:

SW component decoupling
Backward compatible interfaces
Testable components


To be successful in the role you must have
The ability to move between high level abstraction and detailed code.
Excellent SW craftmanship skill
Excellent cooperation skills.


The role is required to contribute actively with SW architecture aspects in CI and test strategy discussions and decisions to enable an efficient Production System.
To maintain competence in the area this role is required to follow industry trends as well as academic work. Active participation and contributions in international conferences is encouraged.
The size and geographical spread of the baseband developer community is large, and this role is required to collaborate and actively work with other leaders, e.g. baseband SW architects, line management, product line, the developer’s community and development programs.

What´s in it for you?
Here at Ericsson, our culture is built on over a century of courageous decisions. With us, you will no longer be dreaming of what the future holds – you will be redefining it. You won’t develop for the status quo, but will build what replaces it. Joining us is a way to move your career in any direction you want; with hundreds of career opportunities in locations all over the world, in a place where co-creation and collaboration are embedded into the walls. You will find yourself in a speak-up environment where empathy and humanness serve as cornerstones for how we work, and where work-life balance is a priority. Welcome to an inclusive, global company where your opportunity to make an impact is endless.

What happens once you apply?
To prepare yourself for next steps, please explore here: https://www.ericsson.com/en/careers/job-opportunities/hiring-process
Location for this role: Global
Recruiter: Anna Magnusson at (anna.magnusson@ericsson.com)

Selection is ongoing please apply as soon as possible
Kindly note that we cannot process applications sent via email.
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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.