Senior Research Engineer, Software developer, CSSH Program, AI Factory

Context And Mission The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) is seeking a Research Engineer to join our Computational Social Science and Humanities Laboratory as part of the AI Factory initiative. The AI Factory is a European project accelerating AI adoption across industry sectors, particularly supporting SMEs and startups while strengthening the European innovation ecosystem. The AI Factory, which utilizes MareNostrum5's specialized AI partition, relies on the secure and efficient management, sharing, and analysis of diverse and often sensitive datasets, including public administration and health data. This role will contribute to designing and implementing the necessary data infrastructure for the AI Factory ecosystem. This includes developing components such as a Data Broker for managing data access in adherence to GDPR, ensuring secure storage, transmission, and monitoring of sensitive data. While Trusted Research Environments (TREs) will manage secure access for highly sensitive data, such as in healthcare and genomics, this position will primarily focus on building the broader, interconnected data infrastructure that supports all AI Factory initiatives. A key responsibility will involve implementing data curation practices and adhering to FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) to facilitate data management and dataset coordination for AI Factory users. This position provides an opportunity to contribute to AI readiness strategies, combining technical skills with effective data stewardship, and bridging computational innovation with practical AI implementation across European public and private sectors. This project is funded by the European Union’s Recovery and Resilience Facility, in accordance with Council Regulation (EU) 2020/2094 of 14 December 2020, and regulated by Regulation (EU) 2021/241 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 February 2021, in the context of the “BSC AI Factory” project. The BSC AI Factory project has received funding from the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (JU) under grant agreement No 101234399. The JU receives support from the European Union’s Horizon Europe Programme and Spain, Portugal, and Türkiye. For more information, please check: Key Duties Design and develop scalable software systems for the AI Factory data infrastructure, including architecting and coding a comprehensive Data Broker platform that manages multi-tenant data access while ensuring GDPR compliance and regulatory adherence. Design and implement robust services and APIs to handle secure data ingestion, processing pipelines, and real-time monitoring systems for sensitive datasets (public administration, healthcare, genomics) Engineer data curation tools and automated workflows that implement FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable), including building custom software for dataset coordination, metadata management, and data lineage tracking Provide technical support for data analysis, including AI/ML models and advanced statistical models, relevant to the development and validation of the data infrastructure Develop specialized research tools and software add-ons such as computational workflows to support the creation and optimization of the AI Factory's data infrastructure Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate complex technical requirements into robust software implementations, working closely with data scientists, researchers, and infrastructure teams Contribute to documenting methodologies, processes, and best practices related to the data infrastructure and sensitive data handling within the AI Factory ecosystem Requirements Education MSc in Data Science, AI or similar Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience Hands‑on experience with Python or R Experience with data analysis, such as using Python ML libraries or R statistical libraries. Experience applying data analysis to social science and/or humanities research. Experience with data processing, data cleaning or preparing data for analysis. Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience Good knowledge of HPC and Distributed Computing Experience in AI models for science is a plus Competences Good fluency in both spoken and written English Good communication skills for effective collaboration. Ability to work both independently and within a team. Hard‑working and highly organized. Conditions The position will be located at BSC within the Computational Social Science and Humanities Laboratory. We offer a full‑time contract a good working environment, a highly stimulating environment with state‑of‑the‑art infrastructure, flexible working hours, extensive training plan, restaurant tickets, private health insurance Holidays: 23 paid vacation days plus 24th and 31st of December per our collective agreement Salary: we offer a competitive salary commensurate with the qualifications and experience of the candidate and according to the cost of living in Barcelona Starting date: asap #J-18808-Ljbffr