Junior Research Engineer - Barcelona, España - Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)

Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)

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Barcelona, España

hace 3 semanas

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Isabel García

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Job Reference:

540_22_LS_TM_RE1
Position:
Junior Research Engineer
Computational Linguist (RE1)
Closing Date:
Sunday, 15 January, 2023
Reference: 540_22_LS_TM_RE1
Job title: Junior Research Engineer
Computational Linguist (RE1)
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 770 staff from 55 countries.
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We are particularly interested for this role in the strengths and lived experiences of women and underrepresented groups to help us avoid perpetuating biases and oversights in science and IT research.
Context And Mission
The Text Mining Unit of the BSC-CNS (TeMU-BSC) is funded through the Plan de Impulso de las Tecnologías del Lenguaje de la Agenda Digital by the Secretary of State of Telecommunications and the Information. It is the first publicly funded text mining unit in Spain. It aims to promote the development of natural language processing and machine translation resources for Spanish and other coofficial languages in biomedicine.
Key Duties
Build an extensive catalogue of existing linguistic resources and tools for Spanish and Catalan.
Automatically annotate data using stateoftheart language processing tools.
Manage corpora and language data according to the requirements specified in the Unit's data management plan.
Evaluate MT systems.

Requirements:

Education
Degree in Applied Linguistics, Computer Science or related disciplines with a very strong linguistic background.
Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience
Experience/knowledge in the NLP and/or MT fields.
Native speaker of Catalan.
Experience/knowledge in corpus annotation and generation of linguistic resources.
Understanding of data administration and management functions (transfer, storage, analysis, distribution, exploration, etc.).
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, a good working environment, a highly stimulating environment with stateoftheart infrastructure, flexible working hours, extensive training plan, tickets restaurant, private health insurance, fully support to the relocation procedures
Duration: Openended contract due to technical and scientific activities linked to the project and budget duration
Starting date: 16/01/2023

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.