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Organisation/Company Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)- BarcelonaTECH Research Field Computer science Engineering » Computer engineering Researcher Profile First Stage Researcher (R1) Positions Research Support Positions Country Spain Application Deadline 30 Jun 2025 - 23:00 (Europe/Madrid) Type of Contract Temporary Job Status Full-time Hours Per Week 35 Offer Starting Date 1 Sep 2025 Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme Reference Number 30257471770 Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

Mission:

Design and implement an intelligent classification system for machine learning models and datasets related to Software Engineering.

Functions to be developed:

• Designing longitudinal cohort-type empirical studies on ML repositories.
• Develop and test all the artifacts needed to implement these studies.
• Run the study on representative repositories.
• DBMS: SQL, PostgreSQL, Redshift, Data Warehousing, ETL Management, AWS, LLMs (Gemini, ChatGPT, ...).
• R, MATLAB, C++, AMPL.

Specific Requirements

Knowledge:

• Data Science.
• Data analysis.
• Mathematical optimization.
• Green AI.

Professional Experience:

• In the university context (contracts, scholarships, CCE, ...).
• In the authorship of articles presented at international conferences.
• Experience in functions similar to those described will be valued, specifically in the development of research activities, both in the university and industrial environment.

Languages CATALAN Level Basic

Languages ENGLISH Level Good

Languages SPANISH Level Good

Research Field Computer scienceEngineering » Computer engineering Years of Research Experience 1 - 4

Eligibility criteria

All the candidates who cannot prove the required academic degree will be immediately withdrawn from the selection process.

The CVs will be assessed according the following general criteria:

• The maximum score for the candidates who accomplish all the eligibility criteria stated in the job offer will be 10 points.
• Threshold: 5 points.
• The maximum score (10 points) will be distributed as follows:
• 1 point for required speciality.
• 2 points for required academic training.
• 2 points for technic competences.
• 1 point for organisational competences.
• 3 points for professional experience.
• 1 point for any aspect of the candidate’s professional profile to be determined as specially relevant by the Selection committee.

If the selection committee decide to include a personal interview as additional step of the selection process, only the candidates scored 5 or above for their CV will be retained for the interview step.

The interview will be assessed according the following criteria:

• Threshold: 3 points.
• The maximum score will be distributed according the following criteria:
• 2 points for adequacy to functional competences of the job.
• 2 points for adequacy of professional experience.
• 1 point for any aspect of the candidate’s professional profile to be determined as especially relevant by the Selection committee.

The eligible candidates will be ranked from highest to lowest score, being this the selection criteria.

Selection process

The planned selection process is as follows:

• The members of the selection committee will decide for each case what the selection process will be, if an assessment is made only for the curriculum vitae or any other procedure is planned: interview, tests, etc ...
• Each phase of the selection process will be reported on the website where the offer is published. If applicable, indicate your request.
• Finally, the name of the person selected will be published on the same website where the offer is published.

Number of offers available 1 Company/Institute Department of Service and Information System Engineering (ESSI) Country Spain State/Province Barcelona City Barcelona Postal Code 08034 Street Jordi Girona, 1-3, Building Ω (Omega-K2M)