Date limit
16-03-2022
Institution
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)
Job title: Research Engineer (RE2)
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, and is a hosting member of the PRACE European distributed supercomputing infrastructure. 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 770 staff from 55 countries.
Context And Mission
The post holder will work in the Text Mining group in the Computer Science Department and will participate in the process of finding, designing and developing Machine Translation engines involving the Catalan language for the AINA project.
The Researcher will work in a highly sophisticated HPC environment, will have access to state-of-the-art systems and computational infrastructures, and will establish collaborations with experts in different areas both at the local and international levels.
The researcher will implement in the HPC environment innovative unsupervised and supervised learning techniques for Machine Translation.
The Researcher will work in a highly sophisticated HPC environment, will have access to state-of-the-art systems and computational infrastructures, and will establish collaborations with experts in different areas both at the local and international levels.
The researcher will implement in the HPC environment innovative unsupervised and supervised learning techniques for Machine Translation.
Key Duties
- Work, in collaboration with the members of the group, on the design and development of the solutions needed to achieve the goals of the project
- Implement cutting-edge techniques for building MT engines for under-resourced language pairs, including use of monolingual corpora, synthetic data and multilingual pre-trained models.
Requirements
- Education
- Degree in Computer Science or similar
- Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience
- Experience in Machine Translation (MT)
- Experience in research and in dissemination activities, including paper writing
- Knowledge of Neural Machine Translation frameworks, such as OpenNMT, Fairseq or Nematus.
- Knowledge of Test-Driven Design and/or Development
- Knowledge of deep learning
- Knowledge of state-of-the-art MT architectures
- Knowledge of mathematics and statistics applied to Machine Learning
- Knowledge of Python
- Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience
- Experience in data preprocessing/cleaning
- Knowledge of Continuous Integration/Delivery/Deployment, including tools such as (or similar to) GitLab CI, Github, Docker and/or Ansible
- Basic knowledge of: C++, Javascript/node.js, C#, Matlab and/or Java
- Experience in machine learning and data mining, including knowledge of PyTorch, Tensorflow, Pandas, Scikit-learn and/or Numpy.
- Experience in optimisation and parallelisation, ideally in HPC clusters
- Basic Knowledge of GPU-based computing and CUDA
- Basic Knowledge of Unix and Git
- Competences
- Fluency in spoken and written Catalan and English
- Capacity to explore new research lines
- Good communication and presentation skills
- Ability to work within a team
Conditions
- The position will be located at BSC within the Life Sciences Department
- We offer a full-time contract, a good working environment, a highly stimulating environment with state-of-the-art infrastructure, flexible working hours, extensive training plan, tickets restaurant, private health insurance, fully support to the relocation procedures
- Duration: Temporary - 1 year renewable
- 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: 1/03/2022
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 a 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@bsc.es.
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Deadline
The vacancy will remain open until 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 planels 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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This position is reserved for candidates who meet the requirements and have the legal status of disabled persons with a degree of disability equal to or greater than 33%. In case there are no applicants with disabilities that meet the requirements, the rest of the candidates without declared disability will be evaluated.
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.
For more information follow this link
This position is reserved for candidates who meet the requirements and have the legal status of disabled persons with a degree of disability equal to or greater than 33%. In case there are no applicants with disabilities that meet the requirements, the rest of the candidates without declared disability will be evaluated.
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