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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Engineer (RE2) Job Title Research Engineer (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.





Look At The BSC Experience BSC-CNS YouTube Channel We are particularly interested for this role in the strengths and lived experiences of women and underrepresented groups to help us avoid perpetuating biases and oversights in science and IT research.

Context And Mission The AI Institute at BSC has consolidated experience in several NLP areas, such as massive language model building, machine translation and unsupervised learning for under-resourced languages and domains. It has been entrusted by the Spanish and the Catalan governments to develop fundamental open-source resources and technologies for Spanish and Catalan. In connection with this, the AI Institute is currently in charge of two flagship projects at the national and regional level: the ALIA Plan, funded by the Spanish Secretariat of Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence, and the AINA project, aimed at developing AI resources for Catalan.

In addition, the Unit participates in various EU-funded international projects. The AI Institute at BSC is looking for a Research Engineer/Developer, with experience in Language Technologies, specifically in Applied Research and Large Language Model deployment, to contribute to the Applied Intelligence projects at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. The successful candidate will work in a highly sophisticated HPC environment, have access to state-of-the-art systems and computational infrastructures, and establish collaborations with experts and companies in different areas at the local and international levels.

Support start-ups, SMEs, corporations,



public institutions and academic organizations in developing early-stage AI applications for real-world use cases.

Technical

English writing of project deliverables. Monitor and evaluate the state of the art in Language Technologies, as well as the needs and expectations of commercial AI stakeholders. Advise and support external stakeholders on projects that leverage BSC-developed AI infrastructures.

Prepare and deliver talks about AI and its applications in top tier technical forums, as well as in less technical dissemination settings. Degree in Computer Science, Telecommunications, Applied linguistics or related disciplines. A Master’s degree will also be valued.

Demonstrated at least 3 years of experience in data science and the use of AI frameworks in relevant application areas. Demonstrated experience in coding NLP applications in Python and other programming languages. Knowledge of version control tools and best practices.

Strong understanding of technology life cycles, specially early stage development and prototyping. Ability to design and deliver technical presentations and training on the application of AI technologies in real-world settings. Fluency in spoken and written English (required), Spanish and Catalan.

The position will be located at BSC within the Life Sciences Department We offer a full-time contract (35h/week), a good working environment, a highly stimulating environment with state-of-the‑art infrastructure, adaptable 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: 22 days of holidays + 6 personal days + 24th and 31st of December per our collective agreement

📌 Research Engineer (Barcelona)
🏢 Barcelona Supercomputing Center
📍 Barcelona