Deep Learning Engineer for Speech Technologies - 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:

157_23_LS_TM_RE2
Position:
Deep Learning Engineer for Speech Technologies (RE2)
Closing Date:
Tuesday, 16 May, 2023
Reference: 157_23_LS_TM_RE2
Job title: Deep Learning Engineer for Speech Technologies (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, and is a hosting member of the PRACE European distributed supercomputing infrastructure. 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 800 staff from 55 countries.
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Context And Mission
The Language Technologies Unit 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 underresourced languages and domains. It has been entrusted by the Spanish and the Catalan government to develop fundamental opensource resources and technologies for Spanish and Catalan.

In connection with this, the LT Unit is currently in charge of two flagship projects at the national and regional level:

the Spanish National Language Technology 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 LT Unit at BSC is looking for a Machine Learning engineer with experience in Speech Technologies, specifically in Deep Learning and model building for tasks such as speech recognition, synthesis and translation.
Key Duties
Design and implement deep learning models for speechrelated tasks.
Prepare model training in HPC clusters.
Ensure the quality of the models.
Optimize ML model performance and scalability.
Document and publish the models on open platforms.
Write research papers.
Mentor junior ML engineers.

Requirements:

Education
Degree in Computer Science, Telecommunications, Applied linguistics or related disciplines
Having a Master's degree will be valued.
Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience
Demonstrated experience of at least 3 years in deep learning frameworks and in the relevant area(s).
Demonstrated experience in speech and audio processing.
Knowledge of version control tools and MLOps best practices.
Native or good level of spoken and written English.
Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience
Demonstrated experience in developing opensource software and resources.
Demonstrated experience in working in dynamic ML teams.
Native or good level of spoken and written Catalan and/or Spanish.
Strong understanding of linguistic concepts.
Competences
Ability to work independently and in a team to complete tasks on schedule.
Ability to work under set deadlines.

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 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: asap01/05/2023

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

At BSC we are seeking continuous improvement in our recruitment processes, for any suggestions or feedback/complaints about our Recruitment Processes, please contact recruitment [at] bsc [dot] es.

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DeadlineOTM-R principles for selection processes**- 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 origin, age, disability or any other basis protected by applicable state or local law.