Position Senior Research Engineer (RE3) Job title Senior Research Engineer (RE3) 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, funded by the Catalan Digitalisation Department.

In addition, the Unit participates in various EU-funded international projects. Actively participating and working alongside the project management in designing proposals, project scoping and evaluation procedures for natural language applications and solutions based upon users, prospects and partner requirements encompassed in technical specifications. Utilizing several technical skills to plan enhancement of natural language application capabilities through integrations, interfaces and additional coding.

Planning, design and implementation of evaluation of natural language platforms and applications to assess solution capabilities and to determine relevant development options to deliver impactful outcomes. Project deliverable writing in Technical English, in close collaboration with software developers. Advise and support external stakeholders on projects that utilize BSC-developed AI infrastructures.

Create and deliver talks about AI and its applications in top tier technical forums, as well as in less technical dissemination settings. PhD degree in computer sciences, engineering, computational linguistics or equivalent.

Experience in project management related tasks: scoping,



task planning and tracking, time-management and deliverable writing. Demonstrated experience participating in international projects, preferably European Framework Programme (FP) projects and in international collaboration. Demonstrated experience in NLP and the use of text mining tools for Spanish, English and Catalan.

Familiarity with scientific web service-based workflow platforms (e.g. Demonstrated experience in language technologies related to data models and metadata schema. Demonstrated experience in language technologies related to standard data formats and text annotation formats.

Familiarity with statistical methods in applied natural language analysis and machine-learning. Advanced programming skills in Python. Fluency in spoken and written English, 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, versátil 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 We are pleased to consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or any other basis protected by applicable state or local law. #

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