Open RAN R&D Trainee

About The Role

Our purpose at Vodafone is to connect for a better future. As a Global Communications Technology company, we put the customer at the heart of everything we do. We are forever challenging, pushing boundaries and discovering innovative ways to connect our customers with their digital societies. We connect people, businesses, and communities across the globe to create the future. We earn customer loyalty, experiment, learn fast and get it done, together.

Vodafone is embarking on a global transformation of data & analytics leveraging innovative capabilities of google cloud and are looking for an experienced data transformation led to play a key role in enabling this large-scale delivery.

This is an excellent opportunity to join an agile technical team, working with some of the best and brightest engineers, while also developing your skills and furthering your career within a software development squad.

Every day you will be learning something new from your peers and your own experiments during the innovation cycles of the Programme Increments.  You will not only learn about software and engineering, but you will also learn about how our Global Vodafone Business portfolio of products proposition works.

As a Open RAN Development Trainee, you´ll have the opportunity to learn and apply your knowledge by: 

• Engage in development activities: the student must be linking with the team, entering the design and development process in order to understand the complexity of the activities. The student will be exposed to the contact with all the team members and he must appreciate the difficulties of the tasks involved in activities such as research and development.
• Help on defining the needs of the development activities: the student must me proactive on helping the simplification of the processes, proposing his point of view and bringing methods and suggestions from the university approach.
• Support preparing necessary documentation:  this task is actually the most important in a R&D environment; by mastering this aspect, the student will be able to approach any future role, inside or outside Research.

Ideally you have the following skills:

• Engineering Degree (Computing, Electronics/Electrical) in which the student should have developed a basic understanding of hardware description languages (VHDL, Verilog, etc.) and chip development processes or C/C++ programming. Also, courses on Signal Processing and Instrumentation could be of interest.
• Engineering Degree (Computing, Electronics/Electrical) or currently enrolled in Telecoms, IT or Software Engineer studies.
• Basic understanding of hardware description languages (VHDL, Verilog, etc.)
• Basic understanding of chip development processes or C/C++ programming. Also, courses on Signal Processing and Instrumentation could be of interest.
• Fluency in English (B2 Upper Intermediate)
• General knowledge in Word, Excel, PPT.

What do we offer?

• Internship paid: 700€/month
• Grow Opportunity in a multinational company
• Training
• 20hours per week (M-F from 09am to 02pm)
• 6/9 months internship
• Office in Málaga city
• Starting date: october