[JOB] Open Post-Doc Position in Barcelona (BSC): Data science and AI expert for Clinical NLP and LMs

[Martin Krallinger]

Dear All,

 

The NLP4BIA group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) is looking for a post-doctoral researcher with expertise in data science, NLP and LMs. 

URL application: https://www.bsc.es/join-us/job-opportunities/54824lsnlpr3

The position description is below. Please let me know if you or others you know are interested. 

 

Best wishes,

Martin Krallinger

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Martin Krallinger, Dr.
Head of NLP for Biomedical Information Analysis Unit
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-krallinger-85495920/
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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. 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.

 

Context And Mission

The Natural Language Processing for Biomedical Information Analysis (NLP4BIA) group at BSC is an internationally renowned research group working on the development of NLP, language technology, and text-mining solutions applied primarily to biomedical and clinical data. It is a highly interdisciplinary team, funded through competitive European and National projects requiring the implementation of natural language processing and advanced AI solutions making use of diverse technologies, including Transformers and recent advances in Large Language Models (LLM) to improve healthcare data analysis.

The NLP4BIA-BSC is looking for a Postdoctoral Research Engineer with experience in Language Technologies and Deep Learning. The candidate will be involved in technical work related to international projects, being part of a team of researchers working on topics related to multilingual information extraction in the clinical field, including Named-Entity Recognition, Entity Linking and Language Modeling. The candidate will have the opportunity to advance the state of the art of cross-lingual biomedical NLP methods by working in a multidisciplinary environment alongside linguists, medical experts, and other engineers.

The funding for these actions/fellowships and contracts comes from the European Union Recovery and Resilience Facility - Next Generation, within the framework of the General Invitation by the public business entity Red.es to participate in the talent attraction and retention programs within Investment 4 of Component 19 of the Recovery, Transformation, and Resilience Plan.
For more information, please check: https://www.bsc.es/join-us/excellence-career-opportunities/ai4s

Key Duties 

• Generation of Large Language Models
• NLP system development: Development of monolingual and multilingual content classification and entity recognition systems
• Pre-training of monolingual and multilingual language models for biomedicine
• Managing projects and technical project coordination
• Collaborate in drafting technical research proposals and writing scientific papers.

 

Requirements

• Education
  • University degree in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, or other engineering / science degree.
  • PhD in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, or similar
• Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience
  • Experience in Natural Language Processing technologies, preferable with some publication track record or projects in the field of LLMs/Deep Learning/NLP
  • Ability to design, implement, and evaluate existing NLP and LMs models.
  • Experience in developing models using transformer architectures.
  • Practical experience with deep learning libraries (e.g. Pytorch, TensorFlow, Spacy, Transformers…)
  • Knowledge of deep learning methods for fine-tuning large language models.
  • Advanced programming skills in Python.
  • Experience in software development resources (Git)
• Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience
  • Fluency in English is essential. Proficiency in Spanish and other European languages would be advantageous.
• Competences
  • Ability to work in a team and in a multi-cultural environment.
  • Good communication and presentation skills.
  • Technical writing skills.
  • A proactive mindset, with creativity to design new solutions.
  • Ability to work effectively both autonomously and as part of an interdisciplinary team.
  • Comfortable working under pressure and meeting strict deadlines. Proactive working style.

 

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
• Duration: 4 years
• Holidays: 23 paid vacation days plus 24th and 31st of December per our collective agreement
• Salary: 55.000,00 €
• Additional Expenses Grant: Each fellowship will be associated with a grant for additional expenses, such as IT equipment, travel, training, stays, etc.
• Starting date: asap - the incorporation for this vacancy must be before the 16th of December 2024