Organisation/Company Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)- BarcelonaTECH Research Field Engineering » Communication engineering Engineering » Computer engineering Mathematics Researcher Profile First Stage Researcher (R1) Positions Research Support Positions Application Deadline 5 Oct 2026 - 23:00 (Europe/Madrid) Country Spain Type of Contract Temporary Job Status Part-time Hours Per Week 20 Offer Starting Date 1 Nov 2026 Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Other EU programme Reference Number 3 Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

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Offer Description
Mission:

Adapt language models (LLMs) to sign language, from data preparation to model training.

Functions to be developed:

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- Generate synthetic data from textual or video data.
- Develop data augmentation methods for sign language.
- Integrate Computer Vision and Language Processing methods for sign language.
- Adapt LLMs for the understanding,



translation and generation of sign language.
- Develop a prototype translation system for the medical field.
- Mastery of the Transformer architecture and adaptations to LLM: Deep Learning with PyTorch and the Hugging Face environment (transformers, datasets, peft, accelerate, evaluate).
- Natural Language Processing: Tokenization, embeddings.
- Evaluation of text generation models.
- Programming in Python and Pytorch and Hugging Face environments.
- Linux-based systems.

Specific Requirements
Knowledge:

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- Catalan Sign Language (basic level).
- Natural Language Processing.

Professional Experience:

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- Have worked on projects in Deep Learning.
- Have worked with data science or have developed software.
- Experience in functions similar to those described will be valued, specifically in the development of research activities, both in the university and industrial environment.

Language

📌 Technician for adapting language models (España)
🏢 Universitat Politècnica De Catalunya (Upc)- Barcelonatech
📍 España