Context And Mission

The data-centric computing group from the computer science department at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center searches for 1 Research Senior Engineer on Machine Learning Operations and High-Performance Computing, willing to work on MLOps research and support for research in a EU project, for the course .
The main objective is to participate in European research projects focused on advancing on distributed machine learning technologies, towards Cloud-Edge orchestration of applications, including distributed machine learning, knowledge discovery and data mining. The use cases for these applications will be LLM orchestration. For this, we're looking for a Research Senior Engineer to join the DCC group and help in different research tasks on managing Cloud-Edge, AI-related applications and Federated Learning, on High-Performance Computing architectures. The mentioned tasks involve helping on academic tasks as experimenting with containerized architectures, AI/ML platforms, Serverless architectures, also communicate research results (writing scientific papers, assisting to scientific conferences, ...).

Key Duties

- Assist on research projects, experiments, technology deployments.
- Participate on research production (papers, publications, demos and prototypes).
- Assist of PhD Students on HPC topics.
- Contribute to collaborations with different international research partners
- Give mutual support to other researchers in the project and research group.

Requirements

- Education on Computer Sciences, Computer Architecture or equivalent.

- Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience





- Minimum 5 years of experience on the field.
- Domain on Data Analytics, High-Performance Computing and Federated Learning topics.
- Scientific papers (conference and journal) preparation, publication and dissemination

- Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience

- Basic skills on Big Data platforms and technologies (Spark, Ray, Flink, etc...)
- Skills on Data Analytics, Distributed machine learning and databases
- Skills on Cloud Computing technologies and Serverless.
- Skills on Reproducible Research (Notebooks, GIT, etc...)
- Understanding of high performance computing and distributed system concepts

- Competences

- Good English communication skills
- Ability to work independently and in the context of a team/project
- Flexible work schedule and available for travelling

Conditions

- The position will be located at BSC within the Computer Sciences 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: Nov 2026

📌 Senior Research Engineer - Machine Learning Operations (Barcelona)
🏢 Barcelona Supercomputing Center
📍 Barcelona