Bsc Technology Innovation Officer On Entrepreneurship for Open Hardware

**Job Reference**:

- 634_25_DIR_IBD_TIO

**Position**:

- BSC technology innovation officer on entrepreneurship for Open Hardware

**Closing Date**:

- Friday, 31 October, 2025

**Reference**: 634_25_DIR_IBD_TIO

**Job title**: BSC technology innovation officer on entrepreneurship for Open Hardware

**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.

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**Context And Mission**
- The exponential growth of RISC-V in the market in the last few years demonstrates the industry’s commitment to its adoption. RISC-V is a key piece within the European strategy for its technological independence and autonomy from other regions. Thus, Europe has enabled multiple funding mechanisms around RISC-V in HPC, and BSC has been leading many of them. This has positioned BSC as a worldwide research center in RISC-V technology. In order to manage all this knowledge, BSC has developed a comprehensive intellectual property rights strategy based on 3 pillars:
1. Exploitable research results, promoting entrepreneurship.
2. Portfolio management, with protection strategies and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) management.
3. Technology transfer, through IP licensing and spin-offs creation.

The implementation of this strategy will depend on the (inter)national industrial needs, the target market, the maturity of the ecosystem, the technology readiness level of the solution, and the new structure of BSC.

The Hardware RISC-V based IPs management for High-Performance Computing Applications into the market (HI4CA) research project envisions the creation of an advanced specialized technology transfer strategy for managing open hardware technologies produced at BSC, with special interest in RISC-V.

We are looking for a technical profile, with knowledge in computer architecture and experience with the open-source community, interested in exploring the entrepreneurship ecosystem as part of her/his professional career development. The role brings the possibility of learning about cut-edge technologies in RISC-V at BSC and innovation business development.

**Key Duties**
- Provide help with the registration and protection of BSC HPC Architecture research projects’ results in the most appropriate way:

- Identifying and tracking BSC technologies as part of research results in collaboration with other BSC groups (i.e. Project Management, Innovation & Dissemination)
- Assessing best protection strategy for each registered technology
- Helping with the BSC research technology registration via Intellectual Property Disclosure Form
- Maintain the BSC portfolio of Open Hardware technologies up to date
- Dynamize the Open Hardware technologies portfolio and identify potential market sectors for exploitation, and support the networking with the industry
- Improve communication channels and mechanisms between researchers and potential technology adopters
- Support with the industrial outreach of RISC-V and Open Source Hardware activities (events, conferences, networking) with the regional HPC ecosystem
- Strengthen communication and working methodologies among the HPC Architecture area and Technology Transfer Office (TTO) at BSC.

**Requirements**:

- Education
- Computer Science Engineering degree or similar (telecommunications, electronics, etc)
- Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience
- Being familiar with the open-source ecosystem
- Innovation Management and Technology Transfer knowledge is a plus
- Basic knowledge in finance and business management is a plus
- Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience
- Fluency in English
- Fluency in Spanish and Catalan is a plus
- Familiar with the deep tech, innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystems is a plus
- Knowledge on IPR management is a plus
- Competences
- Experience in an international environment
- Teamwork skills, capable of working effectively with diverse teams and stakeholders
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Good inter-personal skills
- Enthusiasm, autonomy, commitment, motivation and