Responsibilities
- Develop innovative modules for automatic speech recognition with deep learning.
- Participation in internal group meetings and other scientific discussions.
- Writing and presentation of research papers.
- Participation in current projects related to speech technologies including but not limited to research, documentation and deliverables.
- Collaborate in research and presentation of new scientific projects.
- Collaborate with the members of the group in the generation and evaluation of language resources.
Basic qualifications
- Education Bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics or related subjects, with specialization in speech processing and recognition, and background in computation. A master's degree is desired but not mandatory.
- Bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics or related subjects, with specialization in speech processing and recognition, and background in computation.
- A master's degree is desired but not mandatory.
- Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience Machine learning. Programming skills in Linux, Python, Deep learning libraries, git. Ability to conduct scientific literature review and evaluation.
- Machine learning.
- Programming skills in Linux, Python, Deep learning libraries, git.
- Ability to conduct scientific literature review and evaluation.
- Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience Fluency in spoken and written English, Spanish and/or Catalan are desired. Strong interest in Speech and Natural Language Processing. Knowledge of Spanish and English.
- Fluency in spoken and written English, Spanish and/or Catalan are desired.
- Strong interest in Speech and Natural Language Processing.
- Knowledge of Spanish and English.
- Competences Good communication and presentation skills. Ability to work under set deadlines. Ability to work both independently and within a team.
- Good communication and presentation skills.
- Ability to work under set deadlines.
- Ability to work both independently and within a team.
- The position will be located at BSC within the Directors Department
- We offer a full-time contract (35h/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: 22 days of holidays + 6 personal days + 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: 01/07/2026
- A full CV in English including contact details
- A cover/motivation letter with a statement of interest in English, clearly specifying for which specific area and topics the applicant wishes to be considered. Additionally, two references for further contacts must be included. Applications without this document will not be considered.
- Curriculum Analysis: Evaluation of previous experience and/or scientific history, degree, training, and other professional information relevant to the position. - 40 points
- Interview phase: The highest-rated candidates at the curriculum level will be invited to the interview phase, conducted by the corresponding department and Human Resources. In this phase, technical competencies, knowledge, skills, and professional experience related to the position, as well as the required personal competencies, will be evaluated. - 60 points. A minimum of 30 points out of 60 must be obtained to be eligible for the position.
About the company
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 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.
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Context And Mission
The Speech Team at the newly established AI Institute hosted at BSC brings together extensive expertise in several areas, including automatic speech recognition, speech synthesis, and speech LLMs, with a particular emphasis on low-resource languages and settings. In addition, the AI Institute has been entrusted by both the Spanish and Catalan governments with the mission of developing foundational open-source resources and technologies for Spanish and Catalan.
The Speech Team contributes to two flagship national initiatives: the AINA project, funded by the Catalan Ministry of Digital Policy and aimed at advancing AI resources for Catalan, and the ALIA project, funded by the Spanish Secretariat of Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence and aimed at AI resources for the cooficial languages in Spain. The team also participates in a range of EU- and other nationally funded research projects.
The AI Institute is looking for a junior research engineer to work in automatic speech recognition tasks. The selected candidate will work in a highly sophisticated HPC environment, access state-of-the-art systems and computational infrastructures, and collaborate and work closely with the group members.