Research Engineer in Computational Social Science

**Job Reference**: - 538_24_DIR_CSS_RE3**Position**: - Research Engineer in Computational Social Science and Humanities (RE3) - AI4S**Closing Date**: - Sunday, 13 October, 2024**Reference**: 538_24_DIR_CSS_RE3**Job title**: Research Engineer in Computational Social Science and Humanities (RE3) - AI4S**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 1000 staff from 60 countries. Look at the BSC experience: BSC-CNS YouTube Channel Let's stay connected with BSC Folks We promote Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, fostering an environment where each and every one of us is appreciated for who we are, regardless of our differences.**Context And Mission** In our pursuit, we focus on a wide range of key societal research areas such as Population and Household changes, Democratic Quality, Social Media, Public Opinion and Political Communication, Equity and Welfare in Education and Labor Market, legal systems and Legislation, Social-Ecology, Science of Science, and History, Archeology and Cultural Heritage. Employing a mixed of advanced statistical models, AI/Machine Learning, Large Language Models (LLMs), Agent-Based Modeling (ABM), Social Network Analysis (SNA), high-performance computational methods are applied to a wide range of large datasets from official statistics, surveys, social media, news, laws, historical archives, current data archives, archaeology data, citizens' volunteered and web-scraping data, and public administration and industry data. The funding for these actions/fellowships and contracts comes from the European Union Recovery and Resilience Facility - Next Generation, within the framework of the General Invitation by the public business entity Red.es to participate in the talent attraction and retention programs within Investment 4 of Component 19 of the Recovery, Transformation, and Resilience Plan. "La financiación de estas actuaciones/becas y contratos, procede del Mecanismo de Recuperación y Resiliencia de la Unión Europea-Next Generation, en el marco de la Invitación General de la entidad pública empresarial Red.es para participar en los programas de atracción y retención del talento dentro de la Inversión 4 del Componente 19 del Plan de Recuperación, Transformación y Resiliencia.**Key Duties** - Contributing to developing 3D tools. - Contributing to curating and managing FAIR data (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) for digital datasets in archeology. - Developing research tools to help advance research on computational and digital humanities in collaboration with the Computer Science and Operations departments of the BSC-CNS. - Providing support adopting the researchers‘ code to High Performance Computing. **Requirements**: - Education - Computer Science Degree, Telecommunication Engineering, Archaeology or similar - MSc in Computer Science, Archaeology or similar is highly desirable - Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience - 4 + years of experience building AI/ML tools - Experience in computational methods and large datasets - Experience in high-performance computing - Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience - Fluency in English is essential. Proficiency in Spanish and other European languages would be advantageous. - Experience implementing tools for digital humanities - Experience working with geospatial data is a plus - Experience in 3D data and data standards is a plus - Competences - Ability to work in a team and in a multi-cultural environment. - Interest and ability for independent learning, adapting and developing computational methods to answer research questions in archeology. - Good communication skills for effective collaboration with researchers and other research engineers and data scientists. - Interest and curiosity for artificial intelligence, machine learning, network analysis in the digital humanities. **Conditions** - The position will be located at BSC within the Computational Social Science and Humanities Program. - We offer a full-time contract (37.5h/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 - Duration: 4 years - Holidays: 23 paid vacation days plus 24