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Wireless, Research Manager
Wireless, Research Manager
Req ID: 58729
Job Function: Product & Propositions
Posting Start Date: 02/07/2026 Posting End Date: 10/07/2026
Location: GBR Bristol (Assembly) / GBR Ipswich (Orion Building) Flexibility: 3 days on-site (Bristol or Ipswich), 2 days remote
Salary & Package: Competitive with great benefits
About The Role
Join BT’s Wireless Research Team and help shape the future of radio access and Wi-Fi networks. Our work explores emerging wireless technologies designed to enhance network performance, efficiency, resilience, and flexibility—enabling new services for BT and its customers. We collaborate across:
- Modelling & simulation
- Lab experimentation
- Field trials
- Standards engagement
- Industry partnerships
to drive wireless innovation and influence technical direction.
What You’ll Be Doing
Your core responsibilities will include:
- Leadership: Drive applied research projects in wireless connectivity—guiding technical direction from initial investigation to proof-of-concept, trajectory toward standards influence, trials, or adoption.
- Strategic Focus: Identify key technology questions in cellular, Wi-Fi and broader wireless connectivity, turning them into research activities. Actively contribute to modelling, analysis, experimentation and deliver clear recommendations.
- Industry Insight: Build deep expertise in emerging wireless trends, supplier roadmaps, standards evolution, and network architecture—ensuring strategic relevance and technical credibility.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Senior-level technical expertise in wireless communications, including a profound understanding of:
- Mobile ecosystem
- Supplier landscape
- Standards activity
- Technology roadmaps / evolution
- Deep technical knowledge of mobile network architecture, covering planning, deployment, operation, and future-proofing.
- Experience leading applied research, advanced engineering or technology development projects, spanning:
- Problem formulation
- Evidence generation
- Proof-of-concept development
- Recommendations/adoption strategies
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Desirable Skills & Experience
- Collaborative & analytical: Strong hands-on technical judgement—assessing feasibility, maturity, risk, complexity, performance tradeoffs, and business value.
- Communication: Ability to simplify complex technical concepts for expert and non-expert audiences.
- Leadership: Proven technical mentoring ability, committed to high-quality research outcomes.
- Standards-relevant experience:
- Engagement with 3GPP, IEEE 802.11, Wi-Fi Alliance, or equivalent organisations.
- Direct involvement in standards features, work items, or ecosystem initiatives.
- Industry awareness: Curious about evolving mobile, Wi-Fi, and wireless systems trends.
- Hands-on expertise:
- Testbeds, wireless labs, experimental platforms → professional familiarity.
- Simulation environments or field trials → significant hands-on experience.
- Commercial insight: Skilled in techno-economic analysis, evaluating:
- Costs
- Deployment complexity
- Operational impact & commercial potential.
Our Benefits
BT offers a bespoke benefits package designed for your lifestyle and growth. Core offerings include:
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- 10% performance bonus (on target).
- Online private telemedicine platform for you and your immediate family (24/7 availability).
- Market-leading paid carers’ leave with up to 2 weeks off.
- Equalised paternity/maternity/adoption leave—18 weeks’ full pay, 8 weeks’ half pay.
- Discounted BT & EE products (mobile, broadband, etc.).
- Pension contributions (5% employer + 10% you).
- Holiday purchase scheme (year-round flexibility).
Optional benefits match your preferences: private healthcare, dental care, gym memberships and more.
About BT Group
What matters to the UK matters to us. As the UK’s leading communications group, BT Group comprises brands like BT, EE, Openreach, and Plusnet. Our purpose: to connect for good, serving consumers, businesses (small to large), public sector bodies, and global providers.
We’ve built the future of connectivity — now we turn toward strategic transformation.
With core fibre investments now fully executed, our priorities pivot toward:
- Operational streamlining
- AI & smarter working
- Organisational synergy
Our visionaries shape strategy, capital decisions, and this high-impact transformation—ensuring BT delivers superior service and sustainable growth.
BT Group Culture
We pride ourselves on a commitment-driven, customer-first challenger mindset. These behaviours uphold us:
- Customer First: Deliver exceptional outcomes
- Clarity: Transparency in action
- Connection: Unity across the team
Join BT Group to work on projects which truly define the UK’s communication era. Shape policy, leave a legacy and help define technological futures.
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