Job Reference: - 538_24_DIR_CSS_RE3 Position: - Research Engineer in Computational Social Science and Humanities (RE3) - AI4S Closing Date: - Sunday, 13 October, 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 a founding and hosting member of the former European HPC infrastructure PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe).
Currently, it is the 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 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 1000 staff from 60 countries.
Context And Mission: In our pursuit, we focus on a wide range of key societal research areas such as Population and Household changes, Democratic Quality, Social Media, Public Opinion and Political Communication, Equity and Welfare in Education and Labor Market, legal systems and Legislation, Social-Ecology, Science of Science, and History, Archeology and Cultural Heritage.
Employing a mix of advanced statistical models, AI/Machine Learning, Large Language Models (LLMs), Agent-Based Modeling (ABM), and Social Network Analysis (SNA), high-performance computational methods are applied to a wide range of large datasets from official statistics, surveys, social media, news, laws, historical archives, current data archives, archaeology data, citizens' volunteered and web-scraping data, and public administration and industry data.
The funding for these actions/fellowships and contracts comes from the European Union Recovery and Resilience Facility - Next Generation, within the framework of the General Invitation by the public business entity Red.es to participate in the talent attraction and retention programs within Investment 4 of Component 19 of the Recovery, Transformation, and Resilience Plan.
Key Duties: - Contributing to developing 3D tools.
- Contributing to curating and managing FAIR data (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) for digital datasets in archaeology.
- Developing research tools to help advance research on computational and digital humanities in collaboration with the Computer Science and Operations departments of the BSC-CNS.
- Providing support adopting the researchers' code to High Performance Computing.
Requirements: Education: - Computer Science Degree, Telecommunication Engineering, Archaeology or similar.
- MSc in Computer Science, Archaeology or similar is highly desirable.
Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience: - 4+ years of experience building AI/ML tools.
- Experience in computational methods and large datasets.
- Experience in high-performance computing.
Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience: - Fluency in English is essential.
Proficiency in Spanish and other European languages would be advantageous.
- Experience implementing tools for digital humanities.
- Experience working with geospatial data is a plus.
- Experience in 3D data and data standards is a plus.
Competences: - Ability to work in a team and in a multi-cultural environment.
- Interest and ability for independent learning, adapting and developing computational methods to answer research questions in archaeology.
- Good communication skills for effective collaboration with researchers and other research engineers and data scientists.
- Interest and curiosity for artificial intelligence, machine learning, network analysis in the digital humanities.
Conditions: - The position will be located at BSC within the Computational Social Science and Humanities Program.
- 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.
- Duration: 4 years.
- Holidays: 23 paid vacation days plus 24.
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