Forward Deployed AI Solution Architect

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About this opportunity:
We are seeking an experienced and forward-thinking Forward Deployed AI Solution Architect to join the Americas AI Acceleration Hub within Ericsson's Strategic Projects and Transformation Unit. This role sits at the intersection of data engineering, data science, enterprise applications, and secure system design, and is critical to delivering end-to-end, secure, scalable, and compliant AI-enabled solutions across Ericsson's business units.
As a forward-deployed architect, you will work directly with business stakeholders while partnering closely with Central IT to design, integrate, and deploy solutions that span multiple systems, data platforms, and user-facing applications. You will embed with business teams to translate needs into production-grade architectures. You will own the overall architecture, ensuring secure data flows, system scalability, performance underload, and compliance with enterprise standards from design through deployment and governance. You will frame the business case and iterate rapidly from prototype to PoC and work on productionizing the solution.
What you will do:

• Act as primary technical and architectural advisor to business units and translate business problems into technical solution designs
• Design end-to-end system architectures across data, AI, and applications
• Define integration patterns, APIs, and secure data flows including data contracts.
• Ensure scalability, performance, and fault tolerance including observability while optimizing AI system latency, cost, and accuracy
• Lead architecture reviews, PoCs, and enterprise approvals including security reviews and risk assessments
• Partner with data engineers and data scientists on production systems and collaborate with application teams to produce solutions
• Rapidly prototype solutions based on user use-cases and iterate with stakeholders to validate PoC outcomes
• Apply AI safety guardrails (e.g., prompt controls, grounding, policy enforcement, and data/PII protections) to reduce misuse and hallucination risk

Skills you will bring:
Experience and Education:

• 7-10+ years of solution or systems architecture experience
• Proven end-to-end architecture ownership
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Transferable Skills:

• System integration and API design expertise
• Security and compliance-driven architecture
• Scalability and high-throughput system design
• Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Front-end, back-end, and database awareness
• Working knowledge of AI/ML systems
• Risk assessment frameworks and enterprise risk management (e.g., threat modeling, and mitigation planning)

Collaboration and Communication:

• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills
• Ability to communicate architecture to technical and business audiences
• Ability to understand and validate the business case independently (e.g., value hypothesis, ROI drivers, adoption constraints)

Innovation and Adaptability:

• Systems-level thinker
• Comfortable operating in complex enterprise environments with ambiguity and rapid iteration cycles from prototype → PoC → production

GenAI Working Knowledge (Preferred/Expected):

• GenAI evaluation methods (e.g., offline/online evals, golden sets, rubric-based scoring, and regression testing)

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 range for this position 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.
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 three medical plan options and a dental plan option that allow an employee to select the level of coverage that suits their needs. Employees will receive company credits in an amount equal to the cost that Ericsson pays toward the cost of their medical and dental premiums for themselves and eligible covered dependents.
Your Financial Security
We invest in both your short and long-term financial wellbeing. The Ericsson US 401(k) Plan offers an automatic 3% company contribution and Ericsson match $1 for every $1 you put into the 401(k) Plan on the first 3% of your eligible pay, plus 50 cents on every $1 on the next 2% of eligible pay. When you contribute at least 5% of eligible pay, you are receiving Ericsson's full matching contributions of 4%. Matching and company automatic contributions stop when your total eligible pay for the year reaches the IRS limits. Employees will also receive company credits in an amount equal to the cost of basic life insurance and basic accidental death and dismemberment coverage, as well as short-term and long-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 15 days of accrued vacation, up to 3 personal days per year, 11 annual holidays, 8 hours of volunteer time, and 80 hours of sick time annually. Please note paid time off is pro-rated based on the employee's start date. Furthermore, Ericsson provides up to 16 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, and recognition programs.