Ericsson to hire 250 boffins to work on 5G cloud research

Swedish kit vendor will hire 250 cloud native software developers, engineers and architects to its R&D facility in Ireland to work on 5G projects.
Ericsson intends to bring in the software developers, data scientists, architects, cloud and mobile communication engineers over the next three years. Ericsson says its Irish operation has grown 25% over the past five years and currently employs 1200 people at its Athlone Research and Development Centre, where the new staff would be based.
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