.Job Reference549_24_LS_NLP_RE2PositionResearch Engineer Clinical LLMs (RE2) - AI4SClosing DateThursday, 03 October, 2024About BSCThe 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, 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 under one roof.We are particularly interested in the strengths and lived experiences of women and underrepresented groups to help us avoid perpetuating biases in science and IT research. In instances of equal merit, the incorporation of the under-represented sex will be favoured.We promote Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, fostering an environment where each and every one of us is appreciated for who we are, regardless of our differences.Context And MissionThe 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. The NLP4BIA-BSC is looking for a Research Engineer with experience in Language Technologies and Deep Learning. The candidate will be involved in research related to technical work and AI-related international projects, working on topics related to multilingual information extraction in the clinical field.Key DutiesCorpus construction and design: Development of annotation scheme, constancy analysis, design and annotation of Gold Standard and Silver Standard corpora.AI model benchmarking: Definition of robust evaluation scenarios for AI model evaluation.NLP model development: Development of multilingual information extraction models in the biomedical field.Technical project coordination: Coordinate technical contributions from different partners in technological projects.Documentation and Reporting: Create technical reports and project documentation in both English and Spanish.Scientific writing: Collaborate in drafting technical research proposals and writing scientific papers.RequirementsEducationDegree in Computational Linguistics or a related field.Master's degree in Computational Linguistics or a related field will be advantageous.Essential Knowledge and Professional ExperienceDemonstrated experience in Natural Language Processing technologies.Ability to design, implement, and evaluate biomedical corpora and NLP models.Solid knowledge of information extraction techniques.Practical experience with deep learning libraries (e.G. Pytorch, TensorFlow, Spacy, Transformers).Knowledge of deep learning methods for pre-training large language models
