Research Engineer

Job Reference

392_26_AII_S_RE2

Job title

Research Engineer - Speech Large Language Models (RE2)

Closing Date

Monday, 31 August, ****

About BSC

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) is the leading supercomputing center in Spain. It houses MareNostrum, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe, was a founding and hosting member of the former European HPC infrastructure PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe), and is now hosting entity for EuroHPC JU, the Joint Undertaking that leads large-scale investments and HPC provision in Europe. The mission of BSC is to research, develop and manage information technologies in order to facilitate scientific progress. BSC combines HPC service provision and R&D into both computer and computational science (life, earth and engineering sciences) under one roof, and currently has over **** staff from 60 countries.

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Context And Mission

The Speech Team at the newly established AI Institute hosted at BSC brings together extensive expertise in several areas, including automatic speech recognition, speech synthesis, and speech LLMs, with a particular emphasis on low-resource languages and settings. In addition, the AI Institute has been entrusted by both the Spanish and Catalan governments with the mission of developing foundational open-source resources and technologies for Spanish and Catalan.

The Speech Team contributes to two flagship national initiatives: the AINA project, funded by the Catalan Ministry of Digital Policy and aimed at advancing AI resources for Catalan, and the ALIA project, funded by the Spanish Secretariat of Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence and aimed at AI resources for the co-oficial languages in Spain. The team also participates in a range of EU- and other nationally funded research projects.

The team is seeking a Machine Learning Engineer with experience in speech technologies, particularly in deep learning and model development for tasks such as speech recognition, speech synthesis, and LLMs. The successful candidate will join the Speech Team, work within a highly advanced HPC environment, gain access to state-of-the-art systems and computational infrastructure, and collaborate with experts across multiple disciplines at both local and international levels.

Key Duties

• Participation in current projects related to speech technologies, including but not limited to research, documentation and deliverables
• Design and develop innovative modules for speech large language models
• Design and develop speech synthesis modules
• Preparation and presentation of scientific articles
• Supervision junior research engineers
• Participation in internal group meetings and other scientific discussions

Requirements

Education

A master's degree in Electronic engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics or related, with specialization in speech processing and recognition, and background in computation

Essential Knowledge And Professional Experience

• Demonstrated experience of at least 2 years in machine learning
• Demonstrated experience of at least 2 years in deep learning frameworks and in the relevant area(s)
• Technical skills: Linux, Python, Deep learning libraries, git, HF
• Ability to access and evaluate scientific literature

Additional Knowledge And Professional Experience

• Demonstrated experience in developing open-source software and resources

Competences

• Ability to work under set deadlines
• Good communication skills in English, both oral and written

Conditions

• The position will be located at BSC within the Directors Department
• We offer a full-time contract (35h/week), 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, support to the relocati