Nokia France plays a key role in developing the company's future products and technologies. The Paris-Saclay (in the greater Paris region) and Lannion (in Brittany) campuses are home to global competence centers for 5G, cybersecurity, and the Internet of Things. France is also the second largest site for Nokia Bell Labs.

Feel encouraged to innovate

Be a step ahead. Our people and technology have been at the forefront of every major shift in the way the world communicates and connects.

Be part of open and agile innovation. Nokia's innovation strategy is based on "openness" and is enriched by collaboration with various innovation ecosystems (schools, universities, research institutes, competitiveness clusters, companies, start-ups and more). 

Join a community of state-of-the-art solution developers, architects and integrators. With thousands of R&D engineers in France we are developing 5G technologies, cybersecurity, and the Internet of Things; technologies which are at the heart of our ultra-connected world.

Nokia Bell Labs

Inventing the future of the communications and network sector and imagining disruptive innovations which will transform human experience. With already 8 Bell Labs Nobel Prize winners, our Nokia Bell Labs research engineers are at the origin of many revolutionary inventions from the transistor, the laser, and even the development of the C programming language. In France, researchers work on optical transmission, algorithms, network virtualization, data analysis and the mathematics of complex and dynamic networks. 

• Every year we hold a Nokia Bell Labs open house which we call our "Future X Days". Check out the video of this event here.
• Visit the Bell Labs website.

Nokia Garage

The Nokia Garage is an employee-centric innovation playground on the Paris-Saclay and Lannion campuses. It is a place for employees and external partners to share ideas and foster grassroot innovation, helping innovators fueled with passion to team up across organizational silos. A Garage helps bring ideas to reality, inviting employees to prototype their ideas and test them in the real world.  

Start-up in Residence

A space on our Paris-Saclay and Lannion campuses to host start-up and develop projects collaboration with our teams and enrich each other. An open innovation platform is available to our ecosystem to help accelerate innovation.

Feel the potential of a career without borders

Are you passionate about innovation? We have opportunities for you! Nokia is recruiting 500 R&D engineers - of which 300 should be young graduates - by the end of 2018.  You will strengthen our Paris-Saclay and Lannion teams and help invent the products and technologies of tomorrow.

Join Nokia and realize your potential in a stimulating international environment, conducive to innovation and creativity. We are hiring:

• IT and telecom software development engineers
• Cybersecurity experts
• Researchers

It is part of our culture to train young people and integrate them into our teams. Every year we recruit nearly 400 young people for internships, apprenticeships, French international corporate volunteer positions (VIE), and research projects ... as you can see, we offer many ways to develop your expertise.

Creativity needs stimulation, fulfillment and relaxation so, at Nokia, we take extra good care of our work environment!

• Training on the latest and greatest technological innovations and developing expertise;
• Contributing to the development of technologies that have a positive impact on people’s lives;
• A collaborative and multicultural workplace, enabling new ideas and cross fertilization;
• Striving towards a better work/life balance with 70% of our employees who telework at least one day per week;
• A commitment to diversity in all its forms;
• Numerous internal events and group creativity sessions;
• Many services to help employees in their daily life: a concierge, a gym, “Auchan Drive” (an on-campus supermarket pick-up service), WIFI connected shuttle buses.