Junior Research Engineer for Social Link Analytics
hace 1 semana
**Context And Mission**
Within the Life Sciences Department, we are looking for a research engineer to work on a recently granted project to explain the relationship between the vulnerability of Internet users to fake news and the dynamics of propagation and repercussion of these contents on social media. The project will explore the phenomenon from a holistic and comprehensive perspective by combining experimental research with quantitative and qualitative methods. The research engineer will be part of a team within this project that will develop tools, methods, and guidelines that can be employed by public health institutions, media organizations, and the general public to counteract the dissemination of fake news.
**Key Duties**
- Develop tools to collect, clean, process, and analyze social media data;
- Design a data collection pipeline to build datasets of information related to fake news using various APIs
- Preparing multilingual datasets from social media for ML and statistical analysis.
- Train NLP models for text classification and topic modelling
- Participate in the dissemination of results through visualisations, scientific articles, blogs, and online media posts
**Requirements**:
Education
- Degree in Computer Science, Data analysis or related discipline.
Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience
- Experience with software development and at least one of the following:
- Experience in Python programming language;
- Experience in web programming languages and frameworks (e.g., Javascript, HTML, CSS);
WordPress experience
Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience
- Experience with Python data science tools (e.g., Pandas, Numpy, Jupyter Notebooks, Scikit-learn, Matplotlib/Seaborn) to obtain, curate, clean, analyze, and visualization of information;
- Knowledge of ML and NLP tools (e.g. Pytorch/Huggingface/Transformer architecture)
- Excellent verbal and written Spanish and English. Catalan language skills are also appreciated.
Competences
- Good communication and teamwork skills to work in a multidisciplinary team.
**Conditions**
The position will be located at BSC within the Life Sciences Department
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, tickets restaurant, private health insurance, fully support to the relocation procedures
- Duration: Open-ended contract due to technical and scientific activities linked to the project and budget duration
- Target start date: November
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