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The Innovate track is designed for you who are driven by building what's next. You'll rotate across Research, Product Development, Data, and AI, contributing to solutions that don't just support the business but move it forward.
This isn't a program where you sit on the sidelines. From day one, you're hired into a role, trusted to contribute, supported to grow, and expected to make an impact. Find out more about the Early Career program .
Your journey within the Innovate Program will start as an End-to-End Integration Lead within Business Area Networks.
What you will do
What you will do
As an End-to-End Integration Lead, you will lead the integration of new hardware and software into a functioning product. You will define the integration strategy, coordinate contributions across development teams, and guide the product from its first integration steps to agreed basic-functionality milestones, enabling a smooth transition into verification.
- Define the integration approach: Evaluate development platforms and system capabilities, select suitable integration platforms, and establish integration tracks with clear steps and dependencies.
- Build and maintain the integration plan: Translate the strategy into a high-level plan and timelines for individual integration steps, making the critical path and major dependencies visible.
- Ensure readiness for each integration step: Coordinate analysis of prerequisites, hardware and software readiness, required configurations, use cases, test cases, and test environments.
- Lead coordination across teams: Chair integration meetings, align teams around shared milestones, and help prioritize work according to integration dependencies.
- Drive resolution of integration blockers: Track critical defects, ensure the responsible teams progress corrective actions, and initiate focused task forces when issues prevent integration from advancing.'
- Communicate progress and enable verification: Provide clear reporting on integration status and issues, identify the verification and certification activities each step enables, and coach teams in the end-to-end integration way of working.
You will bring
We believe you can challenge us in who we're looking for and believe you have an interest in complex hardware and software systems, end-to-end integration, and building solutions that move technology forward.
In addition, you have:
- BSc or MSc degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a similar field
- Approximately 2-4 years of relevant experience, including meaningful involvement in a complex product-development project from initial development through to delivery.
- Technical understanding of complex hardware and software systems; practical hardware experience and familiarity with C/C++ are beneficial
- Ability to understand system capabilities, interfaces, and dependencies across development areas, and to build both broad and deep technical knowledge
- Strong planning and dependency-management skills, including breaking integration into achievable steps and identifying the critical path
- Ability to align technical teams, facilitate decisions, negotiate priorities, and coordinate investigations to resolve blocking issues
- Understanding of verification and continuous integration, with the ability to assess readiness and identify downstream activities
- Self-driven, perceptive, and adaptable, with initiative and the ability to make progress through others
- Clear communication, coaching, and collaboration skills; able to adapt to different stakeholders and communicate confidently, including with senior leaders
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.Encouraging a diverse and inclusive organization is core to our values at Ericsson, that's why we champion it in everything we do. We truly believe that by collaborating with people with different experiences we drive 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.
Primary country and city: Sweden (SE) || Stockholm
Req ID: 791405
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a similar field
- Approximately 2–4 years of relevant experience
- Meaningful involvement in a complex product-development project from initial development through delivery
- Technical understanding of complex hardware and software systems
- Understanding of system capabilities, interfaces, and dependencies across development areas
- Strong planning and dependency-management skills, including critical-path identification
- Ability to coordinate technical teams, facilitate decisions, negotiate priorities, and resolve blocking issues
- Understanding of verification and continuous integration
- Clear communication, coaching, collaboration, initiative, adaptability, and stakeholder-management skills
- Practical hardware experience
- Familiarity with C/C++
What the Team is Saying
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Ericsson Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — An automatic employer contribution of 3% plus up to 4% in matching is outlined for U.S. employees, enabling a potential 7% total employer contribution subject to plan rules. Feedback suggests this is a standout element of the package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — The U.S. package specifies at least 15 vacation days for new hires, up to 3 personal days, 11 holidays, and 80 hours of sick time, with flexibility noted in taking time away. Feedback suggests time‑off breadth and usability are strong points.
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Parental & Family Support — Published materials describe up to 16 weeks of paid maternity leave and 6 weeks of paid parental or adoption leave at 100% of pay, subject to eligibility. Feedback suggests these policies provide meaningful support for families.
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What We Do
Ericsson builds the digital connectivity the world relies on. Our technology underpins the mobile networks, platforms, and systems that billions of people, businesses, and societies depend on every day. We are a global leader in communications technology, delivering mobile network infrastructure, cloud software, and wireless connectivity solutions for service providers and enterprises worldwide. Our networks support connectivity across 180+ countries, helping power everyday communication as well as critical digital services at global scale. Connectivity has evolved far beyond consumer mobile use. Today, nearly 80% of the world’s population accesses the internet via mobile networks, and Ericsson is helping shape what comes next. We are advancing 5G and 5G Advanced, developing network APIs that open connectivity to the global developer ecosystem, and applying automation and AI to make networks more intelligent, efficient, and resilient. Ericsson was the first company to launch live 5G networks on five continents, and our 5G platform is now commercially live in 150+ networks across 60+ countries. We also support more than 36,000 enterprise customers, enabling secure, high-performance connectivity for industries such as manufacturing, aviation, logistics, utilities, and public safety, where reliability and performance are mission critical. Innovation is central to how we work. Ericsson has approximately 28,000 employees in research and development, backed by one of the strongest intellectual property portfolios in the industry with 60,000+ granted patents. Our engineers, researchers, and technologists work across 100+ global R&D sites, helping define how networks evolve and how digital infrastructure is built for the long term. As the world moves toward a mobile-first, AI-powered, and cloud-driven future, connectivity becomes the foundation for digital transformation across every industry. Ericsson is building that foundation, shaping the future of digital connectivity through technology that operates at global scale and supports real-world impact, today and for what comes next.
Why Work With Us
Ericsson is a place for people who want to work on technology that powers everyday life. You’ll contribute to large-scale systems used every day, tackle complex challenges in live environments, and keep developing your skills and career in your own vision.
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