Junior Research Engineer - 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:

138_24_LS_LT_RE1
Position:
Junior Research Engineer (RE1)
Closing Date:
Friday, 01 March, 2024
Reference: 138_24_LS_LT_RE1
Job title: Junior Research Engineer (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, 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 Technology Group in the Life Science Department is looking for a Junior Research Engineer to work in the field of Machine Translation involving Catalan. This work will be part of the ongoing project DeepR
Key Duties
Participate in internal group meetings and other scientific discussions.
Preparation and presentation of scientific articles.
Collaborate in the preparation and presentation of scientific projects.
Collaborate with the members of the group in the generation and evaluation of resources in Catalan

Requirements:

Education
BA in linguistics, translation or similar, with a background in computation
Master courses in computational linguistics
Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience
Programming skills (mainly python but also some bash)
Ability to access and evaluate scientific literature.
Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience
Native competence in Catalan
Good knowledge of Spanish.
Fluency in spoken and written English.
Strong interest in NLP, Computational Semantics and Machine Translation.
Competences
Good communication and presentation skills.
Ability to work both independently and within a team.

Conditions

The position will be located at BSC within the Life Sciences Department
We offer a parttime contract, a good working environment, a highly stimulating environment with stateoftheart infrastructure, flexible working hours, an extensive training plan, and support to the relocation procedures
Duration: Temporary until November
Holidays: 23 paid vacation days plus the 24th and 31st of December per our collective agreement
Starting date: 01/03/2024

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.