**Job Reference**:
- 670_24_LS_NLP_RE2**Position**:
- Data science and AI expert on NLP (RE2)**Closing Date**:
- Tuesday, 15 October, 2024**Reference**: 670_24_LS_NLP_RE2**Job title**: Data science and AI expert on NLP (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, was a founding and hosting member of the former European HPC infrastructure PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe), and is now 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 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 1000 staff from 60 countries.
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We promote Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, fostering an environment where each and every one of us is appreciated for who we are, regardless of our differences.**Context And Mission**
- The Natural Language Processing for Biomedical Information Analysis (NLP4BIA) group at BSC is an internationally renowned research group working on the development of NLP, language technology, and text mining solutions applied primarily to biomedical and clinical data. It is a highly interdisciplinary team, funded through competitive European and National projects requiring the implementation of natural language processing and advanced AI solutions making use of diverse technologies, including Transformers and recent advances in Large Language Models (LLM) to improve healthcare data analysis.**Key Duties**
- Predictive NLP model development: Development of advance content mining predictive solutions including clinical NLP, automatic text classification
- Technical project coordination: Coordinate technical contributions inside the team and with clinical hospital site project collaborators.
- Implementation and deployment of clinical NLP solutions: Collaborate in the implementation and technical deployment of NLP platform prototypes at clinical sites.
- Documentation and Reporting: Contribute to technical reports and project documentation
**Requirements**:
- Education
- Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience
- Demonstrated experience in Natural Language Processing technologies
- Experience in developing and training models using transformer architectures.
- Practical experience with deep learning libraries (e.g. Pytorch, TensorFlow, Spacy, Transformers )
- Knowledge of deep learning methods for pre-training large language models using transformer architectures (like BERT, RoBERTA, DeBERTA, GPT, Bloom) as well as learning to implement LLMs.
- Advanced programming skills in Python.
- Experience in software development resources (Git)
- Strong technical writing skills.
- Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience
- Basic knowledge of Spanish.
- Competences
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- We are looking for someone who enjoys working in a wide range of areas and adapts quickly to new situations.
- A proactive mindset, with creativity to design new solutions.
- Ability to work effectively both autonomously and as part of an interdisciplinary team.
- Comfortable working under pressure and meeting strict deadlines.
- Proactive working style.
**Conditions**
- The position will be located at BSC within the Life Sciences Department
- We offer a full-time contract (37.5h/week), a good working environment, a highly stimulating environment with state-of-the-art infrastructure, versátil 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: 23 paid vacation days plus 24th and 31st of December per our collective agreement
- Starting date: asap
**Applications procedure and process**
- 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
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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