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Applied Research Specialist - Mobile, Bristol
Client: BT Group
Location: Bristol, United Kingdom
Job Category: Other
EU work permit required: Yes
Job Reference: 87e1cce9a4d5
Job Views: 3
Posted: 12.08.2025
Expiry Date: 26.09.2025
Job Description:
Why this role matters
This is a technical specialist role in BT’s Research and Network Strategy team where the individual will apply their key expertise within a clearly defined sphere of technical knowledge to complex business issues or opportunities.
The role holder actively engages with colleagues to progress new research in important technical topics and supports the realization of business value from research and innovation outputs. This industrial research role is suitable for someone with a postgraduate degree in the early phase of their professional career.
This role is based in Bristol and our hybrid working model means you are expected to be in the office 3 days per week.
Responsibilities:
* Managing research projects/tasks, both internal to Research and Network Strategy and with collaborative partners.
* Domain expert responsible for maintaining expertise in a specific technical domain.
* Responsible for intellectual property creation, managing patent filing in their team and supporting IPR exploitation where appropriate.
* Accountable for performing research in the Sustainable Network Optimisation domain driving high impact and high value across multiple domains.
* Responsible for authoring thought leadership technical papers, capturing intellectual property.
* Supervision of graduate and post-graduate student placements and secondments.
Skills and Experience:
Skills:
* Technical domain expert: Deep technical or domain expertise with a focus on network systems technologies, energy management, and sustainability practices. Experience with automation of network design/planning capabilities.
* Qualifications: Strong academic record in technology with postgraduate qualifications (PhD or equivalent research experience).
* Expert communicator: Experience presenting research at conferences.
* Open innovation: Skilled in patenting, technical publications, and conference presentations.
* Storytelling with data: Ability to communicate data-driven insights to business audiences.
* Concept Evaluation: Ability to identify relevant innovations and develop trials.
Experience:
* Knowledge in Sustainable Network Optimisation, mobile network planning, 4G & 5G architectures, and energy optimisation modeling.
* Experience in using automation to increase agility and optimize costs.
* Proven delivery of impactful research.
* Stakeholder management across various levels.
* Ability to identify and capitalize on innovations.
* Self-starter with problem-solving skills.
Additional benefits include bonuses, pension schemes, family leave, health support, training opportunities, and share schemes.
Our values focus on inclusive leadership, ownership, delivering value, commercial focus, growth mindset, and building future-ready teams.
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