Work in Trondheim
Build your career in a city where opportunity feels close, ideas move quickly, and new talent can make a real mark.
Your next opportunity may be closer than you think.
Teknobyen/Teknostallen, Trondheim
Small city. Big Opportunities.
Trondheim is a small city with unusually big reach. The city is small enough for people, ideas, and industries to find each other, but strong enough to move work far beyond Norway. Innovation is part of the culture here, not only in technology and research, but in medicine, food, sustainability, education, the arts, and the way people build across disciplines.
This is a place looking for people who want to contribute, not disappear into the background. Here, new talent can get close to decision-makers, join meaningful projects, and see the impact of their work take shape. And because life is not something you postpone for a career, Trondheim gives you both: room to grow professionally, and room to live well while you do it.
One tech company for every 375 people
The Greater Trondheim region has more than 800 technology companies within a population of 317,000. That creates an unusually dense career market, spanning startups, research spinouts, established companies, and international technology groups.
Photo: Kongsberg maritime/Eelume
7,000 researchers, and an economy built around knowledge.
Research is not confined to the university campus. It feeds companies, products, industries, and careers across technology, health, energy, oceans, food production, and engineering.
Global technology, without the scale of a global metropolis.
Semiconductors, wireless technology, ocean autonomy, medical technology, energy systems, and digital infrastructure are developed here, in a city compact enough that many people can walk or cycle between work, home, and everyday life.
Photo: Mykola Ksenofontov, Visit Trondheim
Powerhouse, Trondheim. Photo: Nikol Herec
Nidarosdomen. Photo: McKenna Starck
A successful career that still leaves room for living.
In Trondheim, there is a culture of taking your work seriously without letting it take over. Short distances, reasonable working days, and nature close at hand leave time and energy to build a full life alongside your career.
Skansen. Photo: McKenna Starck
Festningen, Trondheim. Photo: Jéleena Rai
The perks of working in Norway.
Work life in Norway is built to leave room for more than work. A 37.5-hour week is common, working hours are regulated, and many employment agreements include five weeks of paid vacation. So there is still time for family, travel, nature, and the life you are building alongside your career.
Explore careers
Find the main platforms and resources for searching jobs across Trondheim and the surrounding region, from public-sector roles to opportunities in private companies and growing industries.
Join the tech ecosystem
Explore roles across startups, research spinouts, established businesses, and international companies working in technology, engineering, energy, health, oceans, and digital infrastructure.
Build a career in research
Find opportunities across NTNU, SINTEF, St. Olavs Hospital, and the companies and industries shaped by their work.
Find your next opportunity.
Work in Trondheim helps international talent connect with the city’s working life, from finding open positions and understanding the local job market to building networks and discovering companies looking for new talent. Whether you’re studying, newly arrived, or thinking about building a career here, it’s a good place to start.
Work in Trondheim
The Journal
Meet the people shaping Trondheim
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A knife shop between lectures
McKenna Starck
A knife shop between lectures
Between lectures, exams, and long days, a couple of students built one of Trondheim’s sharpest small businesses, proving that student life here can be a place to start something real.
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The extracurricular that left Earth
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The extracurricular that left Earth
Freider came to NTNU for an engineering degree and got a little sidetracked by Orbit, SpaceX, and the small matter of building a national network that is already shaping the next generation of Norway’s space industry.
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