RESEARCH ASSISTANTPOSITIONFOR THEVISION, LANGUAGE AND READING GROUP
Call reference: _ELLIOT
About CVC
The Computer VisionCenter(CVC) is a non-profit researchcenterestablishedin 1995 by the Generalitat de Catalunya and theUniversitatAutònomade Barcelona (UAB). Its mission is to carry outcutting-edgeresearch that has the highest international impact in the field of computer vision. It also promotes the transference of knowledge to industry and society.
Computer vision is an exciting research area and an omnipresent technology,essentially empoweringmachines with the sense of vision. The CVC is a successful marriage between knowledge and innovation. In addition to ourcutting-edgescientific achievements, we haveestablishedlasting ties with industrial partners and created several spin-off companies.
Context and Mission
We are seeking ajunior engineer to join the Vision, Language and Reading group as aresearch assistant.
The successful candidate is expected toparticipateinthe preparation and management of large-scale training processes of multimodal models, on HPC infrastructure.
Thisposition isinitiallyfor1yearandlinkedtothe“European Large Open Multi-Modal Foundation ModelsForRobust GeneralizationOnArbitrary Data Streams ”(ELLIOT ),a European Projectfunded by Horizon Europeand backed by theELLIS network of excellence. Theprojecttargetsthe development of the next generation ofopenMultimodal Foundation Modelsandfurther adapting them for specific downstream tasks.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No.
Requirements
- Education
- Computer science degree (or a student finalizing the studies)
- Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience
- Previousexperience in deep learning, transformer architectures,
- Good programming skills in Pytorch, Tensorflow, or similar frameworks
- Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience
- Publications in relevant forums
- Previousexperience in the document understanding field
- Competences
- Fluency in spoken and written English
- Ability to think creatively, work independently and make decisions.
- Ability to take initiative, prioritize and work under set deadlines and pressure
- The candidate must be an effective communicator, multitask, and work well on collaborative and interdisciplinary designs.
- Other merits
- Experience superior to thatrequiredin similar positionswill bevalued.
- Valuable experience in Catalan public research entities.
- Evaluation of applications:
Candidatures that meet the above requirements will be evaluated using the following criteria:
- Requirements of the candidates (up to 60 points)
- Other merits (up to 40 points)
Conditions
- Part-timetemporarycontract (25h/week)
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