Job Reference: 787_24_CS_AIR_RE1
Position: Research Engineer - Foundation models & LLMs (RE1)
Closing Date: Saturday, 16 November, 2024
About 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 is growing, attracting both young talent and resources.
A strategic project based on foundation models is gaining speed, and dedicated people are needed for taking it to the next level.
Key Duties: Leading development efforts of projects related with AI. Supporting the infrastructure and services of the group. Handling part of the relations of the groups with other institutions of interest (both public and private). Representing the group in different fora. Requirements: Education: Degree in STEM, MSc in Artificial Intelligence. Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience: Professional experience in at least 2 programming languages. Experience with semi-supervised learning paradigms (1 year min). Experience with transformers (1 year min). Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience: Numpy, Pandas. NLP. DL frameworks (Pytorch/Keras). Competences: Fluent in Catalan, Spanish and English. 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, 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: 23/11/2024.
Applications procedure and process: All applications must be made through BSC website and contain:
A full CV in English including contact details. A Cover Letter with a statement of interest in English, including two contacts for further references.
Applications without this document will not be considered. In accordance with the OTM-R principles, a gender-balanced recruitment panel is formed for every vacancy at the beginning of the process.
After reviewing the content of the applications, the panel will start the interviews, with at least one technical and one administrative interview.
A profile questionnaire as well as a technical exercise may be required during the process.
The panel will make a final decision and all candidates who had contacts with them will receive feedback with details on the acceptance or rejection of their profile.
At BSC we are seeking continuous improvement in our recruitment processes; for any suggestions or feedback/complaints about our Recruitment Processes, please contact recruitment [at] bsc [dot] es.
Deadline: The vacancy will remain open until a suitable candidate has been hired.
Applications will be regularly reviewed and potential candidates will be contacted.
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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