Careers at Nokia Bell Labs
At Nokia Bell Labs, we are constantly challenging the status quo and relentlessly pushing boundaries. We admire the talent to create. We embrace unique ideas and cultivate passion for building things that matter. If you embody any of those qualities, we look forward to adding your unique abilities to our team. Our research has produced ten Nobel Prizes, five Turing Awards and numerous other awards. We invent and help build the technologies that will create a more productive, sustainable, and inclusive world. Our consultants serve the world’s top communication service providers, enterprises, and webscale players, enabling them to capture the full potential of next-generation business models and cutting-edge technologies.
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Frequently asked questions
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1. I’m still working on my PhD. How can I get started with Nokia Bell Labs?
While you don’t have to have a PhD to work at Nokia Bell Labs, many of our researchers do. We have a presence in academic institutions across the world—maybe even where you’re studying. For the right candidate, Nokia Bell Labs can support researchers while they finish their degrees.
2. Where in the world can I work at Nokia Bell Labs?
We operate 13 research locations around the globe. Some of our centers have a particular research focus or expertise in a technology acceleration area. All of them share a passion, culture and ethos that center on making fundamental breakthroughs in information and communication technologies.
3. Will I have the freedom to pursue my own research interests?
Every research project operates within some constraints, but the freedom to pursue interesting questions or one's own intuitions is a hallmark of our process. For the entirety of Nokia Bell Labs' nearly 100 year history, researchers have pursued their own interests and produced incredible innovations for the corporation they are part of over and over again. This legacy isn't just about luck, or even bringing the world's greatest minds together. We know that it also has to do with an open-minded approach to tackling the biggest communication challenges. Our research is always aimed at addressing real human needs, and as part of that research journey—interesting, unexpected, or even accidental breakthroughs occur as a byproduct. We tell our researchers, “go forth.”
4. I'm still an undergrad. What are my options for working at Nokia Bell Labs?
There are ample internship opportunities at Nokia Bell Labs for undergraduates. The internship program at Nokia Bell Labs has a long tradition of grooming young minds to do amazing things. Father of Information Theory Claude Shannon and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt started their careers as interns at Bell Labs, as did dozens of other researchers, scientists and engineers who profoundly shaped the world we live in. As an intern at Nokia Bell Labs, you will have the opportunity to engage in cutting-edge applied research in numerous fields. You will have some of the ICT industry’s brightest minds as mentors. And you’ll have access to the resources of Nokia Bell Labs itself.Â
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Bell Labs’ Shahriar Shahramian discusses the Great 6G Ecosystem
In this talk at the Science in the Age of Experience conference, Nokia Bell Labs researcher Shahriar Shahramian shows how, over the last 75 years, engineers have been conquering the electromagnetic spectrum. Those efforts are culminating with 6G, which will be the first wireless technology to fuse the digital and physical worlds.
