Context And Mission The Language Technologies Laboratory at BSC has a consolidated experience in several NLP areas, such as massive language model building, biomedical text mining, machine translation and unsupervised learning for under-resourced languages and domains. It has been entrusted by the Spanish and the Catalan government to develop fundamental open-source resources and technologies for Spanish and Catalan. In connection with this, the LT Laboratory is currently in charge of two flagship projects at the national and regional level: the ALIA Plan, funded by the Spanish Secretariat of Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence, and the AINA project, aimed at developing AI resources for Catalan, funded by the Catalan Digitalisation Department. In addition, the Unit participates in various EU-funded international projects.
The Language Technology Lab is looking for a research engineer to work on the extension of large language models to include the speech modality and in end-to-end speech-to-speech models. The selected candidate will work in a highly sophisticated HPC environment, access state-of-the-art systems and computational infrastructures and collaborate closely with the group members. Este contrato se encuentra financiado por el proyecto “DESARROLLO DE MODELOS DEL LENGUAJE EN EL MARCO DEL PLAN NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGÍAS DEL LENGUAJE, EL PERTE DE NUEVA ECONOMÍA DE LA LENGUA Y EL PLAN DE RECUPERACIÓN, TRANSFORMACIÓN Y RESILIENCIA- FINANCIADO POR LA UNIÓN EUROPEA – NEXTGENERATION EU”, con referencia externa 2023EtL00054, promovido por la Secretaría de Estado de Digitalización e Inteligencia Artificial (SEDIA), cuyos fondos provienen del Ministerio para la Transformación Digital y de la Función Pública, financiado por la Unión Europea-NextGenerationEU». Key Duties
* Participation in current projects related to speech technologies, including but not limited to research, documentation and deliverables
* Design and development of innovative modules for speech LLMs
* Design and development of speech synthesis modules
* Writing and presentation of scientific articles
* Supervision of junior research engineers
* Participation in internal group meetings and other scientific discussions
* Research and writing of new scientific projects.
Requirements
* Education
o Master's degree in Electronic Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics or related subject, with specialization in speech processing and recognition and background in computation
* Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience
o Technical skills: Machine learning, Linux, Python, Deep learning libraries
o Ability to evaluate scientific literature and carry out research
* Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience
o Fluency in spoken and written English, Spanish and/or Catalan
o Strong interest in Speech and Natural Language Processing
* Competences
o Good communication and presentation skills
o Ability to work both independently and within a team
o Ability to work under set deadlines
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, 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: 22 days of holidays + 6 personal days + 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: 01/03/2026