Junior Research Engineer - Computational Linguist (RE1)

Social network you want to login/join with:

Junior Research Engineer - Computational Linguist (RE1), Barcelona

Client:

Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Location:

Barcelona, Spain

Job Category:

Other

EU work permit required:

Yes

Job Views:

3

Posted:

25.04.2025

Expiry Date:

09.06.2025

Job Description:

Context And Mission

The Language Technology Unit of the BSC-CNS (TeMU-BSC) is funded through the Plan de Impulso de las Tecnologías del Lenguaje de la Agenda Digital by the Secretary of State of Telecommunications and the Information. It is the first publicly funded text mining unit in Spain. It aims to promote the development of natural language processing and machine translation resources for Spanish and other co-official languages in biomedicine.

We are looking for candidates with a background in computational linguistics who will participate in the cataloguing of tools and linguistic resources for Spanish and Catalan and activities related to the evaluation of Machine Translation within the Text Mining Unit.

Key Duties

• Build an extensive catalogue of existing linguistic resources and tools for Spanish and Catalan.
• Automatically annotate data using state-of-the-art language processing tools.
• Manage corpora and language data according to the requirements specified in the Unit’s data management plan.
• Evaluate MT systems.

Requirements

• Education
  • Degree in Applied Linguistics, Computer Science or related disciplines with a very strong linguistic background.
• Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience
  • Experience/knowledge in the NLP and/or MT fields.
  • Experience/knowledge in corpus annotation and generation of linguistic resources.
  • Understanding of data administration and management functions (transfer, storage, analysis, distribution, exploration, etc.).
• Competences
  • Ability to work independently and in a team to complete tasks on schedule.
  • Ability to work under set deadlines.

Conditions

• The position will be located at BSC within the Life Sciences Department.
• We offer a full-time contract 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.