Software Engineer Trainee

Join us as a Software Engineer Trainee at Nokia.

Job Description

We are seeking a highly motivated trainee to join a team of Software Engineers. The role involves developing innovative, highly performant and highly distributed applications based on advanced virtualization and containerized concepts, deployed globally to deliver impactful solutions to Nokia customers.

Position: Internship

Duration: 12 months

Start date (tentative): December 2025

Location: Hybrid in Amadora, Portugal

Education Recommendations: Currently a candidate finishing their BSc or MSc degree in Telecommunications, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field with an accredited school.

How You Will Contribute And What You Will Learn

• Conduct research, implementation, and testing of highly distributed software solutions.
• Develop and implement software related to telecommunication networks, to extract actionable insights from complex datasets.
• Utilize Big Data technologies (e. g. Spark, Hadoop) to process, store and query
  - scale datasets.
• Apply high degrees of automation techniques.

Key Skills And Experience

• BSc/ MSc degree in Computer Science, Engineering or similar.
• Relevant expertise in Linux, Docker, Kubernetes.
• Programming: Java, Python.
• Fluent in spoken and written English.

Nice to Have

• Knowledge of Cloud Platforms: GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• Proficiency in Kafka, Spark and Flink for data processing and real‑time analytics.

About Us

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.

Inclusion and Equality

• One of the World’s Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere
• Gender‑Equality Index by Bloomberg
• Workplace Pride Global Benchmark

At Nokia, we act inclusively and respect the uniqueness of people. Nokia’s employment decisions are made regardless of race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

We are committed to a culture of inclusion built upon our core value of respect.

About The Team

As Nokia's growth engine, we create value for communication service providers and enterprise customers by leading the transition to cloud‑native software and as‑a‑service delivery models. Our inclusive team of dreamers, doers and disruptors push the limits from impossible to possible.

Position Details

• Seniority level: Not Applicable
• Employment type: Full‑time
• Job function: Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries: IT Services and IT Consulting and Telecommunications