Senior Research Engineer Network Automation

Come create the technology that helps the world act together

Nokia is committed to innovation and technology leadership across mobile, fixed and cloud networks. Your career here will have a positive impact on people’s lives and will help us build the capabilities needed for a more productive, sustainable, and inclusive world.

We challenge ourselves to create an inclusive way of working where we are open to new ideas, empowered to take risks and fearless to bring our authentic selves to work.

The team you’ll be part of

Nokia Bell Labs is the world-renowned research arm of Nokia, having invented many of the foundational technologies that underpin information and communications networks and all digital devices and systems. This research has produced nine Nobel Prizes, five Turing Awards and numerous other awards.

The goal of the Network Automation Department is to provide innovations in the near term for business group products as well as thought leadership for the long term in the areas of

• E2E architecture comprising different domains (fixed access, wireless access, core, transport)
• The composition of resources for an E2E service offering and corresponding service enablers
• AI-native network intelligence
• Network digital twins for enterprise environments

The Senior Research Engineer Network Automation is a senior individual contributor reporting to the Head of the Network Automation Department.

What you will learn and contribute to

The Senior Research Engineer Network Automation devises disruptive innovations and realizes them from seed idea to business group transfer. This includes identifying promising directions for 6G network automation and contribute to the team vision. They acquire deep technical knowledge of a specific topic and identify corresponding research gaps, always keeping in mind how Nokia can commercialize success in that research. The Senior Research Engineer should become the technical go-to person for that specific topic and be able to integrate that topic in a larger team context. They will share and present their findings internally within Nokia as well as externally at renowned scientific conferences or journals. With increasing maturity of the innovation, they will also closely collaborate with the business groups to commercialize the idea.

Essential Requirements:

• Broad technical understanding of network automation including network slicing
• Proven track record (e.g., publication record) of deep research experience in one subfield of network automation
• PhD (or right before submission of PhD thesis)
• Solid experience in programming; experience in prototyping is a plus
• Experience in optimization and/or AI/ML tools is a plus
• Ability to efficiently implement own research ideas
• Proactive, hands-on work mindset
• Team player

What we offer