Principal Network and Cloud Architect

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 ten Nobel Prizes, five Turing Awards and numerous other awards.

Nokia Bell Labs NAR (Network Architecture Research) Lab drives innovations across multiple network layers and across all network segments, including access, metro, transport, and data centers. The research is expected to identify new opportunities for monetization, sustainability, security, performance improvement, and our customers' total-cost-of-ownership optimization. We are looking for a strong and enthusiastic candidate to join the world-renowned lab.

Nokia offers flexible and hybrid working schemes, continuous learning opportunities, well-being programs to support you mentally and physically, opportunities to join and get supported by employee resource groups, mentoring programs and highly diverse teams with an inclusive culture where people thrive and are empowered.

Company Culture: We believe our people are our greatest asset and we aim to foster a fun, challenging, positive, and inclusive work environment. We offer 1-on-1 mentorship, learning and development opportunities, global impact and interaction, and flexible work/life balance within a highly international team.

Team Culture: You will join a team of experts with in-depth knowledge in transport, fixed, and mobile networks to define the next generation end-to-end network architecture. Our team is a cross-functional team and collaborates closely with other labs across Bell Labs as well as all business groups.

As part of our team, you will:

• Develop and define novel network architecture solutions through in-depth knowledge of transport and datacenter networking as well as their cross-domain enhancements and impact.
• Pro-actively identify emerging trends, translate these into research projects and lead disruptive research topics to drive network architecture innovation.
• Lead effective transfers to business groups and contribute to strategy definitions through strong capabilities for synthesis and creating abstract high-level architectural concepts from details while also identifying and prioritizing essential architectural details that need to be addressed.
• Protect the generated intellectual property with patents, contribute to the implementation of patents in standards, review inventions from others as well as disseminate the key disruptions to internal and external audiences.
• Define frameworks for the advancement of evaluation methodologies and network models.

You have:

• PhD degree or a MSc degree in a relevant engineering field such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Electrical Engineering from a leading college/university.
• Visionary thinking and interest in research beyond current product constraints
• A minimum of 10 years of relevant experience
• Expert domain knowledge in following areas
  
  
  
  • IP and datacenter networks including MPLS, routing protocols (OSPF, ISIS, BGP, etc.), signaling protocols (RSVP, LDP, QoS, IP VPN, VLAN, VLL/VPLS, etc.), automation related technologies (Netconf, Yang, gRPC, gNMI, REST, etc.) and/or in-depth cross-domain networking knowledge.
  • Cloud and/or datacenter solutions in various computing environments, including requirement analysis, solution architecture, and solution design.
  
  

Personal Attributes:

• Ability to work autonomously on complex research issues and interact with other researchers to drive an effective transfer of concepts and solutions to business groups including the ability to visualize and present complex architectures to senior management and customers.
• Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills, boundaryless and agile collaboration mindset
• Very strong analytical skills and eager to find innovative/disruptive solutions to problems.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English

It would be nice if you also had:

• Infrastructure architecture experience that are in one or multiple areas: Multi-Cloud (AWS, Azure), Network, Security, Automation, Orchestration, Edge, CI/CD solutions, MLOps etc.
• Knowledge of RDMA technologies and networking, SmartNIC/DPU offloading, experience with SONIC, familiarity with recent industry initiatives such as CXL, and the Ultra-Ethernet Consortium activities toward next-generation Ethernet tailored to AI workloads and GPU interconnect.
• Google Cloud Architect, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, or Azure Solutions Architect certification.

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

What we offer

Nokia offers continuous learning opportunities, well-being programs to support you mentally and physically, opportunities to join and get supported by employee resource groups, mentoring programs and highly diverse teams with an inclusive culture where people thrive and are empowered.

Nokia is committed to inclusion and is an equal opportunity employer

Nokia has received the following recognitions for its commitment to inclusion & equality:

• One of the World's Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere
• Gender-Equality Index by Bloomberg
• Workplace Pride Global Benchmark