<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:inherit"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Roboto Condensed",sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-align:justify">Dear colleagues,</span><br></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:inherit"><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Roboto Condensed",sans-serif;text-align:justify"><br></span></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:inherit"><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Roboto Condensed",sans-serif;text-align:justify">My group is currently seeking for two new positions (details below)</span></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:inherit"><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Roboto Condensed",sans-serif;text-align:justify">I would really appreciate sharing to potential interested candidates or lists.</span><br></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:inherit"><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Roboto Condensed",sans-serif;text-align:justify"><br></span></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:inherit"><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Roboto Condensed",sans-serif;text-align:justify">Best regards,</span></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:inherit"><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Roboto Condensed",sans-serif;text-align:justify"><br></span></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:inherit"><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Roboto Condensed",sans-serif;text-align:justify">Martin</span></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:inherit"><br></p><div class="gmail-ja-title" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Roboto Condensed",sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-align:justify"><b style="box-sizing:border-box"><br></b></div><div class="gmail-ja-title" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Roboto Condensed",sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-align:justify"><b style="box-sizing:border-box">Context And Mission</b></div><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:inherit"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Roboto Condensed",sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-align:justify"></p><div class="gmail-ja-value" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Roboto Condensed",sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-align:justify">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.</div><div class="gmail-ja-value" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Roboto Condensed",sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-align:justify"><br></div><div class="gmail-ja-value" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Roboto Condensed",sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-align:justify"><br></div><div class="gmail-ja-value" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Roboto Condensed",sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-align:justify"><b style="box-sizing:border-box"><u>Position 1</u></b><br></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Roboto Condensed",sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-align:justify"><b style="box-sizing:border-box">Reference:</b> 514_23_LS_NLPBIA_RE1</div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Roboto Condensed",sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-align:justify"><b style="box-sizing:border-box">Job title:</b> Junior Research Engineer - NLP for Biomedical Information Analysis (RE1)</div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Roboto Condensed",sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-align:justify"><b style="box-sizing:border-box">URL: </b><b><a href="https://www.bsc.es/join-us/job-opportunities/51423lsnlpbiare1">https://www.bsc.es/join-us/job-opportunities/51423lsnlpbiare1</a></b><br></div><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:inherit"><br></p><div class="gmail-ja-value" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Roboto Condensed",sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-align:justify">The NLP4BIA group at BSC is looking for a Software/Data Engineer or Full Stack Developer with an interest in learning technical aspects of Natural Language Processing, AI, and Language Models. The ideal candidate will be responsible for advancing a cutting-edge NLP platform, leveraging the use of state-of-the-art language technologies and NLP resources. This role involves collaboration with hospitals, research teams, and experts on both national and international scales to drive innovation in the field.</div><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:inherit"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Roboto Condensed",sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-align:justify"></p><div class="gmail-ja-title" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Roboto Condensed",sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-align:justify"><b style="box-sizing:border-box">Key Duties</b></div><ul><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Roboto Condensed",sans-serif;font-size:16px">Software Development: Create backend, frontend, and web services, along with web-based demos for NLP tools.</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Roboto Condensed",sans-serif;font-size:16px">NLP platform Integration: Integrate existing NLP components into the CogStack platform for processing clinical and biomedical content.</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Roboto Condensed",sans-serif;font-size:16px">Data Processing and Ingestion: Develop scripts for the ingestion, cleaning, and formatting of text data to make it appropriate for neural architectures.</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Roboto Condensed",sans-serif;font-size:16px">Data Management: Organize and maintain data repositories in alignment with group and project requirements.</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Roboto Condensed",sans-serif;font-size:16px">Documentation and Reporting: Create technical reports and project documentation in both English and Spanish.</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Roboto Condensed",sans-serif;font-size:16px">Automated Data Annotation: Use existing state-of-the-art NLP tools to annotate data, improving operational efficiency autonomously.</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Roboto Condensed",sans-serif;font-size:16px">In this role, the candidate will closely collaborate with AI/NLP experts of the team to define the technical requirements for running and deploying NLP components. You'll collaborate with them in writing research proposals and contributing to research scientific papers. Furthermore, your duties will include working with external teams to provide technical support related to tools used for data annotation and platform deployment, ensuring seamless project execution and interdisciplinary collaboration.</span></li></ul><div class="gmail-ja-title" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Roboto Condensed",sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-align:justify"><br></div><div class="gmail-ja-title" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Roboto Condensed",sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-align:justify"><br></div><div class="gmail-ja-title" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Roboto Condensed",sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-align:justify"><b style="box-sizing:border-box"><u>Position 2</u></b><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-ja-title" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Roboto Condensed",sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-align:justify"><div style="box-sizing:border-box"><b style="box-sizing:border-box">Reference:</b> 515_23_LS_NLPBIA_RE2</div><div style="box-sizing:border-box"><b style="box-sizing:border-box">Job title:</b> Research Engineer - NLP for Biomedical Information Analysis (RE2)</div><div style="box-sizing:border-box"><b style="box-sizing:border-box">URL:  <a href="https://www.bsc.es/join-us/job-opportunities/51523lsnlpbiare2">https://www.bsc.es/join-us/job-opportunities/51523lsnlpbiare2</a></b><br></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box"><br></div></div><div class="gmail-ja-title" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Roboto Condensed",sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-align:justify"><div class="gmail-ja-value" style="box-sizing:border-box">The NLP4BIA-BSC is looking for a 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.</div><div class="gmail-ja-title" style="box-sizing:border-box"><br></div><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><div class="gmail-ja-title" style="box-sizing:border-box"><b style="box-sizing:border-box">Key Duties</b></div><div class="gmail-ja-title" style="box-sizing:border-box"><ul><li><span style="text-align:left">NLP model development: Development of multilingual information extraction models in the biomedical field, including mention extraction and linking of terms to controlled terminologies. Pre-training of cross-lingual large language models for healthcare.</span></li><li><span style="text-align:left">Technical project coordination: Coordinate technical contributions from different partners in technological projects.</span></li><li><span style="text-align:left">Documentation and Reporting: Create technical reports and project documentation in both English and Spanish</span></li><li><span style="text-align:left">Scientific writing: Collaborate in drafting technical research proposals and writing scientific papers.</span></li></ul></div></div><div class="gmail-ja-title" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Roboto Condensed",sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-align:justify"><b style="box-sizing:border-box">About BSC</b></div><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:inherit"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Roboto Condensed",sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-align:justify"></p><div class="gmail-ja-value" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Roboto Condensed",sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-align:justify">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 900 staff from 55 countries.</div></div></div></div>