Principal Network Architect - Mobile

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, 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.

As part of our team, you will:

• Develop and define novel network architecture solutions through in-depth knowledge of mobile networks as well as their cross-domain enhancements and impact.
• Pro-actively identify emerging architecture and technology trends, translate these into research projects and lead disruptive research topics to drive mobile network architecture innovation (including but not limited to 6G and beyond, Cloud-native RAN, ORAN, AI RAN, IoT, automation, etc.)
• Lead effective transfers to business groups and standards 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 and develop proof of concepts to validate and examine new network architecture models.
  
  

You have:

• PhD degree or a MSc degree with a minimum of seven years of experience in an industrial research center in a relevant engineering field such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Electrical Engineering from a leading college/university, plus practical experience from working for network vendors and/or network or cloud operators..
• Ability to work autonomously to lead complex research issues in collaboration with other researchers and to drive an effective transfer of concepts and solutions to business groups and/or standards, including the ability to visualize and present complex architectures to senior management and customers.
• Visionary thinking and interest in research beyond current product constraints
• Deep expert domain knowledge in mobile networks standards (3GPP, ORAN) and product implementations in 4G/5G/6G RAN and Core networks.

Personal Attributes:

• Strong leadership, 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:

• Fundamental and practical cross-domain knowledge in Transport, Operations, Automation, Exposure and Cloud Technologies.

Infrastructure architecture experience that are in one or multiple areas: Multi-Cloud (AWS, Azure), AI/ML, Network, Security, Automation, Orchestration, Edge, CI/CD solutions, MLOps etc

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

• Corporate Retirement Savings Plan
• Health and dental benefits
• Short-term disability, and long-term disability
• Life insurance, and AD&D - Company paid 2x base pay
• Optional or Supplemental life and AD&D insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Paid time off for holidays and Vacation
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Tuition Assistance Plan
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Assistance Program/Work Life Resource Program