Job Reference439_26_AII_S_RE3PositionEngineering Manager Speech, Language Technologies (RE3)
- AI4SClosing DateWednesday, 21 October, ****Reference:439_26_AII_S_RE3Job title:Engineering Manager Speech, Language Technologies (RE3)
- AI4SAbout BSCThe 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 ***
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Context And MissionThe 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 linguistsTake ownership of deliveries, both model and software development for prototypesSupport the team Speech team leader in technical aspects of the projectsDetermine the priorities of the team concerning deliveriesWriting requirement documents for prototype development in order to communicate with external providersParticipate in technical meetings with collaborators, gather requirements, moderate technical discussionsEnsure that the successful delivery of the resultsRepresent the speech team in the coordination meetings of the unit,



together with the Speech Team LeadMentor junior team members for career growthApply for research projectsWrite research papers
EducationMaster's degree in Computer Science, Telecommunications, Applied linguistics or related disciplinesPhD will be a plus
Demonstrated experience of at least 2 years in leading engineering teams in the relevant areas.
Experience in project managementExperience in managing product development from ideation to delivery
Experience in development of speech-to-text modelsFluency 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 prioritize work, personally and for othersAbility to work under set deadlinesAbility to work in a multi-cultural environment
The position will be located at BSC within the Directors DepartmentWe 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 proceduresDuration: Open-ended contract due to technical and scientific activities linked to the project and budget durationHolidays: 22 days of holidays + 6 personal days + 24th and 31st of December per our collective agreementSalary:

we offer
a competitive salary commensurate with the qualifications and experience of the candidate and according to the cost of living in BarcelonaStarting date: 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

📌 Engineering Manager Speech, Language Technologies (Madrid)
🏢 Barcelona Supercomputing Center
📍 Madrid