About T-Labs T-Labs, Deutsche Telekom’s innovation unit, explores technologies shaping the future of connectivity and digital infrastructure. We translate emerging technologies into future telecom capabilities. We are looking for an experienced leader to drive our research area on future communication and compute infrastructures.
Your mission As Research Area Lead, you will shape Deutsche Telekom’s long-term technology perspective on next-generation communication and compute systems. You will drive research and strategic exploration in areas such as:
- AI-native 6G architectures
- Adaptive and intelligent radio systems
- Optical transport and photonic interconnects
- Communication–compute convergence
- AI/HPC infrastructure
- Heterogeneous and distributed compute architectures
You will define the research agenda, drive impactful collaborations with academia and industry partners and ensure research outcomes influence future network design and technology strategy.
Your responsibilities
- Define and evolve the research agenda for future communication and compute infrastructures
- Explore novel architectures and emerging technology paradigms
- Develop prototypes, experiments, and technology demonstrators
- Drive strategic technology assessments and foresight activities
- Collaborate with leading universities, research institutes, startups, hyperscalers and industry partners
- Represent Deutsche Telekom in strategic research ecosystems and industry initiatives
- Translate research findings into actionable recommendations for future network and infrastructure strategies
- Contribute to intellectual property generation, publications and thought leadership
- Connect research outcomes with future telecom platform evolution and operational realities
What you bring
- Advanced degree (PhD preferred) in telecommunications, computer science, electrical engineering, physics or a related field
- Deep expertise in at least several of the following areas:
- wireless communication systems
- optical networking / photonics
- AI infrastructure
- distributed systems
- HPC architectures
- compute-network convergence
- future internet architectures
- Strong systems-thinking and architectural mindset
- Experience in applied research, advanced prototyping or strategic technology development
- Ability to bridge research, engineering and business strategy
- Strong external network in academia and/or industry ecosystems
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Curiosity, strategic thinking, and passion for future technologies
We offer our people the best
- Smartphone: Choose your phone and get a compensation of up to 25,800 CZK every 3 years.
- Employee tariff: Use unlimited data, call and text for lower prices for private and business purposes.
- Yearly bonus: You can get a bonus of up to 15% of your annual fixed salary each year depending on the company’s success.
- T-Mobile discounts: Enjoy the 75% discount on 8 T-Mobile services for your family and friends.
- Partner discounts: Enjoy lower prices of products and services with our partners.
- Flexible hours: Adapt your work to your needs thanks to the home-office option (according to the agreement with the manager).
- Shares program Shares2You: Become a shareholder of the Deutsche Telekom Group and take advantage of the associated benefits.
- Rest and recreation: Relax with 6 weeks of holidays and 1 free day for charity activities.
- MultiSport: Sport and relax with your loved ones thanks to the discounted MultiSport card.
- uLékaře.cz: Take care of your health with free online prevention and appointments with medical specialists for you and your whole family.
- Healthcare: Take care of your wellbeing with high-quality care for a discounted price with our contractual facility.
- Education and development: Broaden your horizons with our internal T-Univerzity offering a wide range of courses.
- Cafeteria: Choose from a wide range of benefits worth up to 15,000 CZK per year - sports and cultural services, health and beauty, transport allowances, holidays or language courses.
- Day for a good deed: You can devote one working day a year to volunteering in non-profit organizations and thus contribute to social responsibility together with us.
- Psychological consultations: Are you having troubles in your private or professional life? Share your burden anonymously via phone or online.
- Meal contribution: Enjoy a delicious meal with a work-day allowance of 123.90 CZK.
- Sabbatical: Sometimes we all need to switch off. That’s why, after working for 2 years and upon agreement with your manager, you can take 1 month off to do whatever you need.
- Pension allowance: Get ready for your retirement with a pension allowance after 12 months with us.
Everyone is welcome to join us
Our employees feel that they have equal employment and career development opportunities with us, regardless of age, gender and gender identity, sexual orientation, physical and mental ability, nationality, social and ethnic origin, political views, religion and world view. This makes us very happy. We are committed to continuous improvement and to creating a safe working environment for all.
What awaits you
- Has the job offer captured your interest? Fill in the application form and let us know about yourself.
- We will assess the information you send us and will get back to you under any circumstances.
- We will contact the chosen applicants and specify the details.
- A job interview is a two-way opportunity to get to know each other better.
- We will inform you about the result of the interview as soon as possible. Successful candidates will receive a job offer.
- In our company, according to our job architecture, you will perform the position of „RAN Strategy & Design Expert“.
