5G Software Developer Co-op Winter 2025

5G Software Developer Coop Winter 2025

Position: 5G Software Developer Co-op (multiple positions)

Number of positions: 6

Start date: Monday, Jan 6^th, 2025

Location: 349 Terry Fox Drive, Ottawa, Ontario. Hybrid, min 3 days in office.

Duration: (months): 8, 12 or 16 are possible

Sections acronyms: BNEW EUIR RP … (Business Unit Networks, Engineering Unit Integrated RAN, RAN Performance development groups in Ottawa)

** Request ** Please indicate in your application resume, or a cover letter, how many months you are available for. Since there is a lot to learn, we are seeking students available for eight months or longer. Please include your most recent transcripts in your application.

About this opportunity

As the tech firm that was instrumental in creating 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 and communication. 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. Come and be where it begins.

Exciting features about our Canada co-op program include:

·       Challenging & interesting work

·       Collaborative, helpful work teams

·       Beautiful modern campus

·       Lots of extra social & networking activities for employees to participate in

·       Evaluated as a best employer in Canada, multiple times

·       Opportunities for full time employment down the road

·       Working for a company that genuinely believes that having a strong culture of ethics, integrity, diversity, and inclusion is a long-term competitive advantage

What you will do

Our Exciting Opportunities: 5G Software Developer Co-op (multiple positions)

The 5G Baseband software development team has multiple positions to fill. They all provide great learning opportunity in 5G wireless technology. There is lots of team support and student peers to work with, and there is plenty of interesting tools exposure too.

The available positions are as follows. It’s also possible that types of work will change over time.

5G software rApp developer

• This position involves developing, debugging, and testing 5G rApps (remote applications) developed to be running on top of 5G services. The primary function of rApps is to modify the behavior of Radio Access Network (RAN) features without manual intervention.
• This role will mainly involve developing/testing rApps in Java and Python, with the possibility of integrating AI/ML concepts.

Join our Team

5G software developer

• This position involves developing, debugging and testing 5G features. The development is focused on baseband Layer 2 software.
• You will be working with a software development team in Ericsson, getting full experience of cutting edge technology and sharpening your programming skills.

Tools developer

• This position involves developing/debugging software tools which support developer’s needs, such as command-line and web-based tools, 5G log analysis tools, trouble reporting tools, debug tools, software management tools, etc.
• To give our interns a well-rounded Ericsson experience, a portion of your work term will involve working with a software development team on 5G related production and test software.

Automated test developer

• This position involves developing the infrastructure to support 5G automated testing and developing automated test cases to test new 5G software features. Areas where test development is focused include Layer 1, test framework and 5G features.
• This area offers interesting coding opportunities in the testing realm.

If any of these types of work interests you then apply! During the interview we can discuss which positions and types of work interest you the most.

You will bring

By accepting a position with Ericsson, you will participate in some of the following activities:

• Collaborate with colleagues
• Use Agile ways of working
• Work with a team, and independently
• Develop real time 5G base station software
• Applying AI/ML skills to development work
• Assist in the investigation of issues uncovered during testing
• Develop/code automated 5G test cases
• Develop/code automated test tools capabilities
• Perform software feature and/or integration testing in the lab on 5G lab equipment
• Work in 5G simulations testing signal processing, including in AI/ML
• Develop command-line and web-based tools, to support software development
• Generate test data for design validation
• Develop test tools and/or test scripts
• Trouble shoot and help to resolve issues with the test environment

The following skills are beneficial, though you don’t have to have them all!

• Software development and debugging skills with an academic background in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Communications Engineering, Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
• Working towards completion of a bachelors, masters, or doctoral degree.
• Entering any coop term (1st, 2nd, …).
• Interpersonal skills: Team player, independent, self-starter, organization skills, detail oriented and able to work in a dynamic environment. 
• Effective English oral and written communications skills.
• General knowledge of LTE and/or 5G wireless protocols are helpful.
• Concurrent programming languages, Perl, Python, Java, JavaScript, Typescript, Java SpringBoot framework, HTML/CS, C/C++.
• Experience with Linux, Gerrit, Github, Jenkins, Django, and Angular are all assets.
• HTTP & RESTful framework, Database Fundamentals (Hibernate & JPA in our implementation), Kubernetes & Docker.
• These positions are based in Ottawa. We work in a hybrid work model with about three days a week in the office and two working at home, though this can vary somewhat. 

This position reports to 5G Baseband line managers.