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 30267230018 Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

Offer Description

Mission:

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

Functions to be developed:
- 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:
- Catalan Sign Language (basic level).
- Natural Language Processing.

Professional Experience:
- 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.

Languages CATALAN Level Good
Languages ENGLISH Level Good

Languages SPANISH Level Good

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