.Job Reference: 776_24_CS_AIR_R2Position: Researcher - Multimodal foundational models and XAI - AI4S (R2)Closing Date: Friday, 15 November, 2024About BSC: The Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) is the leading supercomputing center in Spain.
It houses Mare Nostrum, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe, and is now hosting entity for Euro HPC 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.Context And Mission: The High Performance Artificial Intelligence research group (expert in AI) are pushing a research line for increasing the transparency and understanding of foundational models.
This position is intended to lead research in that topic, catching up with the state-of-the-art on methods for AI safety, and extending these towards more robust and reliable solutions.Key Duties:Contribute to the review of the state-of-the-art for XAI, with a focus on foundational models and LLMs.Identify in-house or external data sources.
Lead the data gathering and pre-processing pipelines.Conduct the design and training of AI models.Implement reliable, reproducible and automated training and evaluation methodologies.
Integrate with HPC environments.Document and disseminate the work done.Requirements:Education: Degree in STEM, Master in STEM, PhD in Machine Learning.Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience:Experience in XAI methods (3 years minimum).Experience with LLM evaluation (2 years minimum).Experience with PyTorch (2 years minimum).Publications track (5 papers minimum).Advanced knowledge of C++, Python, and Bash.Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience: Fluent English and Spanish are a must.Competences: Capacity to work in multidisciplinary environments.Conditions:The position will be located at BSC within the Computer 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, and private health insurance.Duration: 4 yearsHolidays: 23 paid vacation days plus 24th and 31st of December per our collective agreement.Salary: 45,000.00€Starting date: ASAP - the incorporation for this vacancy must be before the 16th of December 2024.Applications procedure and process: All applications must be submitted via the BSC website and contain:A full CV in English, including contact details.A cover/motivation letter with a statement of interest in English, clearly specifying for which specific area and topics the applicant wishes to be considered.
Additionally, two references for further contacts must be included.
Applications without this document will not be considered