Engineering Manager Speech, Language Technologies (RE3) - AI4S Engineering Manager Speech, Language Technologies (RE3) - AI4S The Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) is the leading supercomputing center in Spain. 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.

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.

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 cooficial languages in Spain.



The team also participates in a range of EU- and other nationally funded research projects. The team is looking for an Engineering Manager in Speech with experience in Deep Learning applied to speech processing and possible audio large language model building.

The successful candidate will work in a highly sophisticated HPC environment, lead a young team of motivated ML engineers, will have access to state-of-the-art systems and computational infrastructures, and will establish collaborations with experts in different areas both at the local and international levels. The funding for these actions/fellowships and contracts comes from the European Union Recovery and Resilience Facility -Next Generation, within the framework of the General Invitation by the public business entity Red. Lead a team of ML engineers, data engineers and computational linguists Take ownership of deliveries, both model and software development for prototypes Support the team Speech team leader in technical aspects of the projects Writing requirement documents for prototype development in order to communicate with external providers Mentor junior team members for career growth Apply for research projects Master's degree in Computer Science, Telecommunications,



Applied linguistics or related disciplines PhD will be a plus Demonstrated experience of at least 2 years in leading engineering teams in the relevant areas.

Experience in project management Fluency in English is essential. Proficiency in Spanish and other European languages would be advantageous. Native or good level of spoken and written Catalan will be a plus Ability to work in a multi-cultural environment.

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 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.

📌 Engineering Manager Speech, Language Technologies (Re3) - Ai4s (Cataluña)
🏢 Barcelona Supercomputing Center
📍 Cataluña