Deep Learning Engineer for Language Technologies (RE2)

Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC); Málaga; Presencial; EUR 40.000 - 55.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center is seeking a research engineer to join the Language Technologies Unit. This role involves working on cutting-edge projects in Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing, contributing to the development of impactful AI resources. The successful candidate will collaborate with experts in a stimulating environment, benefiting from extensive training and a solid benefits package including vacation days and health insurance.

Servicios

Flexible working hours

Extensive training plan

Restaurant tickets

Private health insurance

Support for relocation procedures

23 paid vacation days

Formación

• Experience in Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing is required.
• Familiarity with Transformers and neural network architectures.
• Capable of algorithm design and model evaluation.

Responsabilidades

• Design and develop solutions for the research projects.
• Generate and evaluate language models using Deep Learning techniques.
• Focus on post-training strategies and algorithm evaluation.

Conocimientos

Deep Learning

Natural Language Processing

Machine Learning

Educación

PhD or Master's in Computer Science or a related field

Descripción del empleo

Organisation / Company Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) Research Field Computer science » Other Researcher Profile Recognised Researcher (R2) Leading Researcher (R4) Established Researcher (R3) Country Spain Application Deadline 28 May 2025 - 00 : 00 (UTC) Type of Contract To be defined Job Status Negotiable Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

Offer Description

Context And Mission

The Language Technologies Unit at BSC has consolidated experience in several NLP areas, such as massive language model building, biomedical text mining, machine translation and unsupervised learning for under-resourced languages and domains. It has been entrusted by the Spanish and the Catalan governments with the mission to develop fundamental open- source resources and technologies for Spanish and Catalan. In connection with this, the LT Unit is currently in charge of two flagship projects at the national and regional level : the ALIA project, funded by the Spanish Secretariat of Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence, and the AINA project, aimed at developing AI resources for Catalan, funded by the Catalan Digitalisation Department. In addition, the Unit participates in various EU funded international projects.

The LT Unit at BSC is looking for a research engineer with experience in Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing, or related.

The successful candidate will work in a highly sophisticated HPC environment, have access to state-of-the-art systems and computational infrastructures, and establish collaborations with experts in different areas at the local and international levels.

Key Duties

Work, in collaboration with the group members, on the design and development of the solutions needed to achieve the goals of the group’s research projects.

Collaborate with the members of the group in the generation and evaluation of language models using Deep Learning techniques (Transformers, Recurrent Neural Networks, and other neural network architectures).

All the previous points focusing on the research and deployment of post-training strategies, including instructions processing, algorithm design and evaluation of instructed LLMs.

Requirements

Conditions

The position will be located at BSC within the Life Sciences Department

We offer a full-time contract (37.5h / week), a good working environment, a highly stimulating environment with state-of-the-art infrastructure, flexible 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 : 23 paid vacation days plus 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

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