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Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)

Machine Translation Engineer (RE2)

Barcelona

FULL TIME

November 8, 2024

Job Reference
707_24_LS_LT_RE2
Position
Machine Translation Engineer (RE2)
Closing Date
Friday, 22 November, 2024
Reference: 707_24_LS_LT_RE2
Job title: Machine Translation Engineer (RE2)


About BSC


The Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) is the leading supercomputing center in Spain. It houses Mare Nostrum, 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 Euro HPC 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 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. In instances of equal merit, the incorporation of the under-represented sex will be favoured.

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.

If you consider that you do not meet all the requirements, we encourage you to continue applying for the job offer. We value diversity of experiences and skills, and you could bring unique perspectives to our team.


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 under-resourced languages and domains. It has been entrusted by the Spanish and the Catalan government, with the mission to develop fundamental open-source resources and technologies for Spanish and Catalan. In addition, the Unit participates in various national and EU-funded international projects. Deep R3 is one of these projects, whose main goal is to develop cost-efficient language and translation models.

The LT Unit at BSC is looking for a Machine Learning engineer with experience in Machine Translation and possibly in other areas of Natural Language and Speech Processing.

The successful candidate will work in a highly sophisticated HPC environment, will have access to state-of-the-art systems and computational infrastructures, and will establish collaborations with experts in different areas both at the local and international levels. Among their main duties will be to collaborate in Deep R3.


Key Duties


  • Perform the full training cycle of the translation model in HPC clusters
  • Optimize adaptation of LLMs to the translation task
  • Set up complete evaluation frameworks
  • Write technical reports and project documentation in English, Spanish and Catalan.
  • Write research papers


Requirements


  • Education
    • Master degree in Computer Science, Telecommunications, Applied linguistics or related disciplines
  • Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience
    • Demonstrated experience in deep learning frameworks and in Machine Translation and other relevant areas.
    • Knowledge on version control tools, and MLOps best practices
  • Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience
    • Demonstrated experience in developing open source software and resources Native or good level of spoken and written Catalan and Spanish Strong understanding of linguistic concepts.
    • Native or good level of spoken and written English
  • 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 full-time contract (37.5h/week), a good working environment, a highly stimulating environment with state-of-the-art infrastructure, flexible 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
  • Salary: we offer a competitive salary commensurate with the qualifications and experience of the candidate and according to the cost of living in Barcelona
  • Starting date: February 1st, 2025


Applications procedure and process


All applications must be made through BSC website and contain:

  • 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

    In accordance with the OTM-R principles, a gender-balanced recruitment panel is formed for every vacancy at the beginning of the process. After reviewing the content of the applications, the panel will start the interviews, with at least one technical and one administrative interview. A profile questionnaire as well as a technical exercise may be required during the process.

    The panel will make a final decision and all candidates who had contacts with them will receive a feedback with details on the acceptance or rejection of their profile.

    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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Deadline


The vacancy will remain open until a suitable candidate has been hired. Applications will be regularly reviewed and potential candidates will be contacted.


OTM-R principles for selection processes


BSC-CNS is committed to the principles of the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers of the European Commission and the Open, Transparent and Merit-based Recruitment principles (OTM-R). This is applied for any potential candidate in all our processes, for example by creating gender-balanced recruitment panels and recognizing career breaks etc.
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.
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