NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING, AI AND LANGUAGE MODEL ENGINEER (RE1)

About BSC The Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) is the leading supercomputing center in Spain.
It houses MareNostrum, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe, was a founding and hosting member of the former European HPC infrastructure PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe), and is now hosting entity for EuroHPC JU, the Joint Undertaking that leads large-scale investments and HPC provision in Europe.
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 staff from 60 countries.
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Context And Mission The Natural Language Processing for Biomedical Information Analysis (NLP4BIA) group at BSC is an internationally renowned research group working on the development of NLP, language technology, and text-mining solutions applied primarily to biomedical and clinical data.
It is a highly interdisciplinary team, funded through competitive European and National projects requiring the implementation of natural language processing and advanced AI solutions making use of diverse technologies, including Transformers and recent advances in Large Language Models (LLM) to improve healthcare data analysis.
The NLP4BIA-BSC is looking for a Research Engineer with experience in Language Technologies and Deep Learning.
The candidate will be involved in technical work related to international projects, being part of a team of researchers working on topics related to multilingual information extraction in the clinical field, including Named-Entity Recognition, Entity Linking and Language Modeling.
The candidate will have the opportunity to advance the state of the art of cross-lingual biomedical NLP methods by working in a multidisciplinary environment alongside linguists, medical experts, and other engineers.
Key Duties Generation of Large Language Models NLP system development.
Development of monolingual and multilingual text processing, entity recognition and entity linking systems Pre-training of monolingual and multi-lingual language models for biomedicine Managing large projects and technical project coordination Collaborate in drafting technical research proposals and writing scientific papers.
Requirements Education University degree in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, or other engineering / science degree.
Candidates with a minimum of a master's degree will be considered.
Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience Experience in Natural Language Processing technologies, preferable with some publication track record or projects in the field of LLMs/Deep Learning/NLP Ability to design, implement, and evaluate existing NLP and LMs models.
Knowledge of information extraction techniques, including Named Entity Recognition (NER) or Entity Linking.
Experience in developing models using transformer architectures.
Practical experience with deep learning libraries (e.
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Pytorch, TensorFlow, Spacy, Transformers…) Knowledge of deep learning methods for fine-tuning large language models.
Advanced programming skills in Python.
Experience in software development resources (Git) Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience Proficiency in Spanish and other European languages would be advantageous.
Fluency in English is essential.
Competences Good communication and presentation skills.
Technical writing skills.
A proactive mindset, with creativity to design new solutions.
Ability to work effectively both autonomously and as part of an interdisciplinary team.
Comfortable working under pressure and meeting strict deadlines.
Proactive working style.
Conditions The position will be located at BSC within the Life Sciences Department We offer a full-time contract (37.
h/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 Starting date.
asap Applications procedure and process The position will be located at BSC within the Directors Department We offer a part-time contract (37.
h/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 Starting date.
asap Deadline The vacancy will remain open until a suitable candidate has been hired.
Applications will be regularly reviewed and potential candidates will be contacted.
OTM-R principles for selection processes BSC-CNS is committed to the principles of the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers of the European Commission and the Open, Transparent and Merit-based Recruitment principles (OTM-R).
This is applied for any potential candidate in all our processes, for example by creating gender-balanced recruitment panels and recognizing career breaks etc.
BSC-CNS is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion.
We are pleased to consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or any other basis protected by applicable state or local law.
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