Context And Mission

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 data processing 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 to participate in the talent attraction and retention programs within Investment 4 of Component 19 of the Recovery, Transformation, and Resilience Plan.

Key Duties

- Lead a team of ML engineers, data engineers and computational linguists
- Support the team Speech team leader in administrative aspects of the projects
- Determine team priorities and ensure the successful delivery of the results




- Writing requirement documents for data acquisition and processing in order to communicate with external providers
- Represent the speech team in the coordination meetings of the unit, together with the Speech team lead
- Mentor junior team members for career growth
- Apply for research projects
- Write research papers

Requirements

- Education
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Telecommunications, Applied linguistics or related disciplines
- PhD will be a plus

- Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience

- Demonstrated experience of at least 3 years in leading engineering teams in the relevant areas
- Demonstrated experience of at least 2 years in management
- Published papers on deep learning, specifically in speech
- Experience in managing product development from ideation to delivery

- Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience

- Experience in speech data creation, curation and processing
- Experience in development and evaluation of text-to-speech models
- 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

- Competences

- Ability to work in a team to complete tasks on schedule
- Ability to prioritize work, personally and for others
- Ability to work under set deadlines
- Ability to work in a multi-cultural environment

Conditions

- The position will be located at BSC within the Directors Department
- We offer a full-time contract (35h/week), a good working environment, a highly stimulating environment with state-of-the-art infrastructure, adaptable 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

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