Overview
Research Engineer – Automatic Speech Recognition with Deep Learning (RE1) at Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS).
Closing Date: Tuesday, 21 October, ****.
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 hosts EU and national HPC projects.
The mission of BSC is to research, develop and manage information technologies to facilitate scientific progress.
BSC combines HPC service provision and R&D; in computer and computational science across life, earth and engineering sciences and employs over **** staff from 60 countries.
Context And Mission
The Language Technologies Laboratory (LT Lab) at BSC has strength in NLP, including large language model work, biomedical text mining, machine translation, and unsupervised learning for under-resourced languages.
LT Lab leads national and EU funded projects and seeks a junior research engineer to work on automatic speech recognition tasks in a high-performance computing environment.
Key Duties
Develop innovative modules for automatic speech recognition with deep learning.
Participate in internal group meetings and scientific discussions.
Write and present research papers.
Contribute to current projects related to speech technologies, including research, documentation and deliverables.
Collaborate on research and presentation of new scientific projects.
Collaborate with group members in the generation and evaluation of language resources.
Requirements
Education
Bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics or related subjects, with specialization in speech processing and recognition, and background in computation.
A master's degree is desired but not mandatory.
Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience
Machine learning.
Programming skills in Linux, Python, deep learning libraries, git.
Ability to conduct scientific literature review and evaluation.
Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience
Fluency in spoken and written English, Spanish and/or Catalan are desired.
Strong interest in Speech and Natural Language Processing.
Knowledge of Spanish and English.
Competences
Good communication and presentation skills.
Ability to work under set deadlines.
Ability to work both independently and within a team.
Conditions
The position will be located at BSC within the Life Sciences Department.
Full-time contract (37.5h/week) with a stimulating environment and state-of-the-art infrastructure; adaptable hours; extensive training; restaurant tickets; private health insurance; relocation support.
Duration: Temporary, until 30/06/2026.
Holidays: 23 paid vacation days plus 24th and 31st of December per collective agreement.
Salary: competitive and aligned with qualifications and cost of living in Barcelona.
Starting date: asap.
Applications procedure
All applications must be submitted via the BSC website and include:
A full CV in English including contact details.
A cover/motivation letter in English, specifying areas/topics of interest, and two references.
Applications without this document will not be considered.
Recruitment Process
The selection is by competitive examination.
Phases include curriculum analysis (40 points) and an interview phase (60 points).
A minimum of 30 points is required to be eligible.
The panel will ensure gender-balanced representation.
Feedback will be provided to all interview participants.
For questions about recruitment, contact ******.
Deadline: The vacancy remains open until a suitable candidate is hired.
Applications will be regularly reviewed.
OTM-R and Equal Opportunity
BSC adheres to Open, Transparent and Merit-based Recruitment (OTM-R) principles and is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion.
For more information follow the official links on the BSC site.
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