System Architect

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Job Location: Mississauga, ON
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We are seeking an experienced System Architect with strong expertise in AI-native systems, ML platform engineering, and cloud-native architectures. The ideal candidate has hands-on experience building and operating LLM-based solutions in production and designing scalable AI platforms on Kubernetes.
This role combines deep technical architecture capability with AI transformation leadership across DevOps, CI/CD, and enterprise engineering ecosystems.
Impact
The role will lead the design of scalable AI-native platforms, reduce AI hallucination risk, improve engineering productivity, and establish enterprise-grade AI governance and operational excellence.
What you will do

• Design and scale AI-native enterprise platforms using LLMs, RAG architectures, agentic AI workflows, knowledge graphs, and persona-driven AI systems.
• Build and operate model serving and inference platforms on Kubernetes (e.g., KServe, Seldon, BentoML or similar).
• Design ML pipelines and orchestration using Kubeflow, MLflow, Airflow, and model registries.
• Architect scalable inference systems with GPU optimization, autoscaling, and latency/cost tradeoff management.
• Implement hallucination mitigation, grounding strategies, and AI evaluation frameworks.
• Establish AI monitoring, data drift detection, and Responsible AI governance practices.
• Design secure, multi-cloud AI solutions across AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Drive AI roadmap planning, business case development, and executive-level technical presentations.
• Design Cloud Native & AI Native CI/CD pipelines using GitOps and tooling like ArgoCD, Flux, Jenkins, Tekton, GitLab CI, Spinnaker.)
• Build highly performant and observable microserives using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger/Zipkin, ELK/EFK.
• Using databases like Cassandra, Postgres, Oracle and EDM to handle data at scale.
• Build AI tools that improve development, test and release productivity using Amazon Kiro, Amazon bedrock, Amazon agent core, LangChain, LangFuse and LangGraph

The skills you bring

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 12+ years in software/cloud architecture.
• 1 to 2 years or more, hands-on experience building production-grade GenAI/LLM systems.
• Strong Kubernetes and AI/ML platform engineering expertise.
• Experience with model serving, GPU workloads, and inference scaling.
• Solid understanding of AI governance and quality assurance practices.

Preferred

• OSS/BSS domain knowledge (intent based orchestration exposure is a plus).
• Experience integrating AI into CI/CD, regression automation, and DevOps workflows.
• Familiarity with vector databases, knowledge graphs, and AI orchestration frameworks.

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?
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Ericsson uses a merit-based hiring approach that values people with different experiences, perspectives and skillsets. We truly believe this approach drives 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.
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DISCLAIMER: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees in this position. They are not an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required for this position, and you may be required to perform additional job tasks as assigned.
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Compensation and Benefits at Ericsson
At Ericsson, we know that our people are the key to our success. We offer a competitive package to help with your individual needs and goals.
Your Pay
The salary offered is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, location, and the candidate's combination of job-related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience.
The salary range for this position is
• Mississauga,ON: $129,500 - $170,100
Short-Term Variable Compensation Plan: Your pay also includes the opportunity for an annual bonus. Actual bonus payouts are based on performance of the business against the unit's objectives, individual performance, and the individual bonus target. Certain eligibility and pro-ration rules apply.
Your Health
Ericsson offers excellent health benefits including the choice of 3 medical and dental plan options that allow an employee to select the level of coverage that suits their needs. Core level coverage is paid for fully by Ericsson.
Your Financial Security
We invest in both your short and long-term financial wellbeing. Ericsson's Group Retirement & Savings Program offers an automatic 2% company contribution into the Pension Plan. Ericsson also offers a 50% match of employee's contribution into the Registered Retirement Savings Plan, up to 8% of the employee's contribution (maximum of 4% match). This leads to a total company contribution potential of 6%. Employees will also basic life insurance and basic accidental death and dismemberment coverage at two-times annual base pay at no cost, as well as short-term disability coverage. Employees also have the option to participate in Ericsson's Stock Purchase Plan.
Your Time
Your work-life balance is important to us. New employees are provided a minimum of 18 days of accrued vacation, at least 3personal days, minimum 10 holidays, 1 volunteer day, and sick days. Please note paid time off is pro-rated based on the employee's start date. Furthermore, Ericsson provides up to 10 weeks of paid maternity leave and 6 weeks of parental or adoption leave at 100% of pay.
Additional Benefits
Ericsson offers many other company-paid benefits such as financial wellness programs, educational assistance, matching gifts, wellness account, and recognition programs.