Context And Mission

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center's Creative Intelligence Lab is looking for a research engineer or postdoctoral researcher with experience in spatial data analysis and AI models.
The candidate will work within the framework of the AI Factories project, helping industry develop AI models for analysing and diplaying geo-located data, geared towards producing better decision making tools and advance solutions on climate resilience, mobility, urban interventions, and more.
The candidate will need experience preparing and analysing geolocated data from multiple heterogeneous sources, and creating and using AI models that use these data to answer questions posed by the researchers as well as administration officials and other collaborators.
The candidate will be embedded in the Computational Applications in Science and Engineering department (CASE);
which works with industry and academia developing software and applications that leverage the power of High-Performance Computing to solve real problems of people.

Key Duties

- Training and fine-tuning AI models (LLMs, image and code generation)
- Spatial data analysis
- Assistance in preparing data for training
- Assistance in training models
- Collaborate with internal and external researchers of the project

Requirements

- Education
- Degree in Data Science, Applied Mathematics, or Computer Science
- PhD will be highly valuable

- Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience





- Experience in gathering datasets from spatial data portals
- Knowledge and professional experience in Geographical Information Systems (GIS), and GIS software (QGIS)
- Experience with agentic coding systems

- Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience

- Knowledge with programming languages such as Python, R
- GIS python packages like ArcPy, PyQGIS
- Training and use of LLMs and other generative AI models
- Experience training and deploying AI models in HPC environments
- Good level in English, both written and spoken

- Competences

- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work both independently and within a team.

Conditions

- The position will be located at BSC within the CASE 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
- Salary: we offer a competitive salary commensurate with the qualifications and experience of the candidate and according to the cost of living in Barcelona
- Starting date: As soon as possible

📌 Research Engineer - Geolocalized Data Analyst (Re2) - Ai Factory (Barcelona)
🏢 Barcelona Supercomputing Center
📍 Barcelona