More than 100 jobs to be created by Huawei in Ireland
Over the past 15 months, Huawei has created 200 jobs in Ireland, as well as investing €60 million in R&D. In the next two years, Huawei will invest a further €80 million in R&D in Ireland, doubling its commitment from 2019.*
The new jobs will meet sustained growing demand for Huawei’s
products and services across its sales, R&D, IT development and in its
consumer division. The company has a strong focus on helping its business
partners roll out 5G across Ireland in coming years. The jobs will be mainly based in its Dublin
headquarters and across operations in Cork and Athlone.
The investment is supported by the Irish government through
IDA Ireland.
Commenting on the announcement, Tánaiste and Enterprise,
Trade and Employment Minister Leo Varadkar said: “The news that Huawei will
create 110 new jobs is most welcome. The
company is creating new jobs at a time when we really need them with so many
people out of work. Despite all the current uncertainty and challenges, Ireland
continues to attract top class investment from global technology companies.
These 110 jobs, which come in addition to the 200 created over the past 15
months, will be accompanied by an €80m investment in Irish research and development.
I wish the company the best of luck with this expansion.”
Confirming the latest recruitment plans Huawei Ireland Chief
Executive Tony Yangxu said: “We are delighted to see such growth in our
workforce and business. Huawei has a
long-term commitment to Ireland, where since 2004 we have built a world-class
team servicing our ever-growing consumer and enterprise customer bases. Today’s announcement is testament to the
strength of those, as well as the ongoing success of our research and
development programme, to which we committed €70 million in 2019. Our story in Ireland is one of mutual
success, as we assist with the national digital transformation and Ireland
continues to grow its international reputation as a pro-business environment
with great talent available.”
IDA Ireland CEO Martin Shanahan added: “This is a welcome
investment by Huawei which will add substantially to Ireland’s technology and
R&D ecosystem. The company’s
continued commitment to significant investments in R&D and creating high
value jobs demonstrates Huawei’s confidence in Ireland and the talent pool
available here.”
Huawei has a broad range of activities in Ireland, where it
serves all of the major telecommunications providers with products and business
solutions.
Huawei’s R&D operations in Ireland work closely with
Science Foundation Ireland research centres, including Adapt, Connect and Lero,
while also having partnerships with DCU, Trinity, UCD, UCC and UL. Its R&D efforts in Ireland focus on the
areas of video, cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI), site-reliability
engineering and 5G consumer use cases.
In 2020, Huawei Ireland began supporting Ocean Research
& Conservation Ireland through its global digital inclusion TECH4ALL
programme. Huawei Ireland is providing a
research grant and technological support to ORC Ireland as it conducts the
first real-time study of the impact of marine traffic on whales in Irish
waters. Huawei Ireland also launched the ‘TECH4HER’ Scholarship Programme in
partnership with Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin) and University
College Dublin (UCD), aimed at supporting female students studying STEM
subjects.
Huawei Ireland was recently announced as a 2021 regional Top
Employer by the Top Employers Institute. Each year, Top Employers Institute certifies
organisations who are focused on putting their people first through their
exceptional HR policies. The Top Employers Institute programme certifies
organisations based on the participation and results of their HR Best Practices
Survey. This survey covers 6 HR domains consisting of 20 topics such as People
Strategy, Work Environment, Talent Acquisition, Learning, Well-being and
Diversity & Inclusion and more.
About Huawei Ireland
Huawei is a leading global provider of information and
communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices. With
integrated solutions across four key domains – telecom networks, IT, smart
devices, and cloud services – Huawei is committed to bringing digital to every
person, home and organisation for a fully connected, intelligent world. Huawei
employs over 194,000 people in 170 countries across the globe.
Huawei has been in Ireland since 2004, with its business now
serving over 3 million people and supporting over 860 direct and indirect jobs.
Huawei’s business activities in Ireland continue to thrive.
Intelligent connectivity with fibre and 5G technologies has begun and will
empower the market of mobile networks and broadband networks with AI and IOT
technologies. Huawei Ireland is working
very closely with local operators and partners, and is focused on nurturing
future talent and highly-skilled professionals in these areas across the
country.
Huawei works with a number of Irish third-level
institutions, including Trinity College Dublin, Dublin City University,
University of Limerick, University College Dublin, and University College Cork,
funding vital Irish research into video, artificial intelligence and cloud
computing. The company also partners key
Science Foundation Ireland centres such as Connect, Insight, Adapt and Lero.
Huawei Ireland is supporting Ocean Research &
Conservation Ireland, a “for-impact” non-profit organisation based in Cork, to
conduct Ireland’s first real-time study to assess the impact of marine traffic
on whales in Irish waters. The new study will see the deployment of acoustic
monitoring equipment in the Celtic Sea at locations where sightings of whales
and other wildlife have been recorded. The equipment will be able to listen for
movements of whales, and with the help of machine learning models to enhance
data analysis, for the first time provide near real-time detection.
In 2020, Huawei Ireland launched the ‘TECH4HER’ Scholarship
Programme in partnership with Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin) and
University College Dublin (UCD), aimed at supporting female students studying
STEM subjects. The scholarships are available at both undergraduate and
postgraduate level. In addition to financial support, TECH4HER also offers the
opportunity to engage in a mentoring programme with representatives from
Huawei.
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