Research Engineer for Language Technologies

**Job Reference**:

- 125_25_LS_LT_RE2

**Position**:

- Research Engineer for Language Technologies (RE2)

**Closing Date**:

- Monday, 10 March, 2025

**Reference**: 125_25_LS_LT_RE2

**Job title**: Research Engineer for Language Technologies (RE2)

**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 Language Technologies Unit at BSC has consolidated experience in several NLP areas, such as massive language model building, biomedical text mining, machine translation and unsupervised learning for under-resourced languages and domains. It has been entrusted by the Spanish and the Catalan governments with the mission to develop fundamental open-source resources and technologies for Spanish and Catalan. In connection with this, the LT Unit is currently in charge of two flagship projects at the national and regional level: the ALIA project, funded by the Spanish Secretariat of Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence, and the AINA project, aimed at developing AI resources for Catalan, funded by the Catalan Digitalisation Department. In addition, the Unit participates in various EU funded international projects.
The researcher will implement innovative techniques for language modelling and evaluation in the HPC environment.

**Key Duties**
- Work, in collaboration with the group members, on the design and development of the solutions needed to achieve the goals of the group’s research projects.
- Interact with relevant stakeholders of the group’s research projects to understand their problems and the available data to formulate valuable solutions.
- Collaborate with the members of the group in the generation and evaluation of language models using Deep Learning techniques (Transformers, Recurrent Neural Networks, and other neural network architectures).
- Manage corpora and language data according to the requirements specified in the Unit’s data management plan. Evaluate MT systems.

**Requirements**:

- Education
- Degree in Applied Linguistics, Computer Science or related disciplines with a very strong linguistic background.
- Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience
- Native speaker of Catalan.
- Experience/knowledge in corpus annotation and generation of linguistic resources.
- Understanding of data administration and management functions (transfer, storage, analysis, distribution, exploration, etc.).
- Good knowledge of Python.
- Experience in machine learning techniques applied to NLP.
- Research experience.
- Knowledge of Test-Driven Design and/or Development.
- Knowledge of Deep Learning.
- Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience
- Theoretical knowledge of AI techniques.
- Knowledge of HPC workload managers such as Slurm.
- Experience in research and dissemination activities, including paper writing.
- Basic Knowledge of GPU-based computing.
- Fluency in spoken and written English.
- Competences
- Ability to work independently and in a team to complete tasks on schedule.
- Capacity to explore new research lines.
- Good communication and presentation skills.
- Ability to work within a team and within a pair (pair programming).
- Ability to work under set deadlines.

**Conditions**
- The position will be located at BSC within the Life Sciences Department
- 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, support to the relocation procedures
- Duration: Open-ended contract due to technical and scientific activities linked to the project and budget duration
- Holidays: 23 paid vacation days plus 24th and 31st of December per our collective agreement
- Starting date: 01/03/2025

**Applications procedure and process**
- A full CV in English, including contact details.
- A cover/motivation letter with a statement of interest in English, clearly specifying for which specific area and topics the app