System Manager | Early Career Program

About this opportunity

Ericsson’s Early Career Program is an 18-month journey for you who are recently graduated or have up to five years of relevant experience. Through three rotations, including one international and market exposure, you will tackle challenges that matter, work alongside people who expect you to contribute, question, and move things forward. 
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 programme 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 here. 
Your journey within the Innovate Program will start as System Manager at Business Area Core Network in Gothenburg.

What you will do

This is an opportunity to build a strong foundation in 5G Core, 6G evolution and end-to-end systems while developing towards future technical leadership.You will work at the intersection of technology, innovation and business. You will explore emerging technologies, take part in system-level studies, contribute to technical direction and learn how ideas become standards, products and customer value.
•    Participate in system studies on 5GC/6G evolution, new capabilities and emerging use cases.
•    Analyse technology trends, research, customer needs and business priorities, and help turn them into requirements, architecture options and recommendations.
•    Contribute to 3GPP-related reviews, technical discussions and standardization activities, especially in areas relevant to Packet Core and end-to-end network evolution.
•    Explore end-to-end scenarios such as mobility, interworking, enterprise and IoT, network slicing, edge, roaming, QoS and resilience.
•    Assess impacts on interfaces, performance, operations, security, lifecycle, migration and customer value.
•    Work with architects, product management, development, research, standardization and customer-facing teams across Ericsson.
•    Help connect standardization and innovation to product realization, verification, deployment and customer impact.
•    Participate in root-cause analyses and learn from complex technical cases.
•    Use AI-assisted methods responsibly for technology exploration, standards analysis, requirements and technical material—always validating results and protecting confidential information.
•    Bring your own ideas to innovation workshops and contribute to idea incubation.
Your development journey will be shaped together with you. The goal is to help you grow into roles such as Technology Specialist, innovation leader, technical coordinator, program lead or another future technical-leadership position.

You will bring 

•    A Master’s degree or PhD in computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics or a related technical discipline.
•    Strong technical competence, analytical skills and the ability to learn quickly.
•    Curiosity about telecom, cloud-native systems, AI, networking and the evolution towards 6G.
•    An innovative, entrepreneurial and creative mindset, with the energy to explore ideas and turn them into practical outcomes.
•    A collaborative and communicative approach—you enjoy working with people from different technical and business backgrounds.
•    An interest in connecting technology to customer value, portfolio decisions and business impact.
•    Good English communication skills, both written and spoken.

In addition, you have:
Experience with 5G Core, Packet Core, 3GPP, Kubernetes, CNFs, cloud platforms, CI/CD, performance, service assurance or 6G studies is valuable, but not required. What matters most is your potential, motivation and willingness to take on complex challenges.