Research Engineer - Speech Large Language Models (RE2) 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.

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The Speech

Team at the newly established AI Institute hosted at BSC brings together extensive expertise in several areas, including automatic speech recognition, speech synthesis, and speech LLMs, with a particular emphasis on low-resource languages and settings. In addition, the AI Institute has been entrusted by both the Spanish and Catalan governments with the mission of developing foundational open-source resources and technologies for Spanish and Catalan.

The Speech

Team contributes to two flagship national initiatives: the AINA project, funded by the Catalan Ministry of Digital Policy and aimed at advancing AI resources for Catalan, and the ALIA project, funded by the Spanish Secretariat of Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence and aimed at AI resources for the co-oficial languages in Spain. The team also participates in a range of EU- and other nationally funded research projects. The team is seeking a Machine Learning Engineer with experience in speech technologies,



particularly in deep learning and model development for tasks such as speech recognition, speech synthesis, and LLMs.

The successful candidate will join the Speech Team, work within a highly advanced HPC environment, gain access to state-of-the-art systems and computational infrastructure, and collaborate with experts across multiple disciplines at both local and international levels. Participation in current projects related to speech technologies, including but not limited to research, documentation and deliverables Supervision junior research engineers A master's degree in Electronic engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics or related, with specialization in speech processing and recognition, and background in computation Demonstrated experience of at least 2 years in machine learning Linux, Python, Deep learning libraries, git, HF Demonstrated experience in developing open-source software and resources Good communication skills in English, both oral and written 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 ASAP Evaluation of previous experience and/or scientific history, degree, training, and other professional information relevant to the position. ~The recruitment panel will be composed of at least three people, ensuring at least 25% representation of women. After reviewing the content of the applications, the panel will begin the interviews, with at least one technical and one administrative interview.

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.

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