Technical Senior Research Engineer 2 - Barcelona, España - Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)

Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)

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Barcelona, España

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Isabel García

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Job Reference:

134_24_LS_LT_RE3_T2
Position:
Technical Senior Research Engineer 2 (RE3_T2)
Closing Date:
Friday, 01 March, 2024
Reference: 134_24_LS_LT_RE3_T2
Job title: Technical Senior Research Engineer 2 (RE3_T2)
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 largescale 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 900 staff from 55 countries.
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Context And Mission
The Language Technologies Unit at BSC has consolidated experience in several NLP areas, such as massive language model building, biomedical text mining, machine translation and unsupervised learning for underresourced languages and domains. It has been entrusted by the Spanish and the Catalan governments with the mission to develop essential opensource resources and technologies for Spanish and Catalan. In addition, the Unit participates in various EUfunded international projects. The LT Unit at BSC is seeking a highly skilled Senior Researcher with a strong background in Machine Translation and Natural Language Processing to take a leadership position and be responsible for crafting competitive grant proposals to secure funding for the team's research.
Key Duties
Lead and contribute to MT and NLP research projects, staying abreast of the latest advancements in the field.
Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to define research goals and objectives.
Contribute to the development of a strategic research agenda for the LT Unit.
Identify and evaluate funding opportunities, taking into consideration the Unit's research priorities.
Develop and write clear, concise, and persuasive grant proposals for funding opportunities in the field of MT and NLP, both at national and international levels.
Ensure proposals align with the Unit's strategic research objectives and address the specific requirements of funding agencies.
Collaborate with other researchers, both internally and externally, to enhance the impact and visibility of our research.

Requirements:

Education
Ph.

D. in Machine Translation or Natural Language Processing.

Proven track record of leading Spanish and Europeanfunded projects in the area of Machine translation and NLP.
Extensive experience in developing and writing successful grant proposals for research funding.
Strong publication record in reputable NLP conferences and journals.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Familiarity with a broad range of NLP techniques, including machine learning and deep learning approaches.
Experience working with industry partners on collaborative research projects.
Ability to mentor and guide junior researchers.
Fluency in spoken and written Catalan, Spanish and English. Fluency in other languages will also be valued
Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience
European projects on Language Technologies with special focus on machine translation
Experience dealing with Spanish Public Administration Bodies
Participation in Language Technologies projects with Spanish Public Bodies
Advanced linguistic knowledge with expertise in rulebased grammars, lexicon building, and annotation (both syntactic and semantic)
Research profile
Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience
Projects on machine translation for coofficial languages
Basic or medium knowledge/experience with platforms such as UIMA, GATE, SOLR, and programming languages
Participation in conferences and journals related to LT at European level
Some experience leading international teams
Scientific Publications on topics related to LT
Fluency in spoken and written English, while fluency in other European languages will be also valued
Competences
Teamwork
Managing programs and projects
Problem solving
Technical writing
Autonomy at work

Conditions

The position will be located at BSC within the Life Sciences Department
We offer a fulltime contract (37.5h/week), a good working environment, a highly stimulating environment with stateoftheart infrastructure, flexible working hours, extensive training plan, restaurant tickets, private health insurance, support to the relocation procedures
Duration: Openended contract due to technical and scientifi