<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Dear All,</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">The NLP4BIA group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) is</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> looking for a post-doctoral researcher with expertise in
data science, NLP and LMs. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>URL application</b>: <a href="https://www.bsc.es/join-us/job-opportunities/54824lsnlpr3">https://www.bsc.es/join-us/job-opportunities/54824lsnlpr3</a><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The position description is below. Please let me
know if you or others you know are interested. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Martin Krallinger</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><div>=======================================<br>Martin Krallinger, Dr.<br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Head of NLP for Biomedical Information Analysis Unit<br></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS)</span></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-krallinger-85495920/" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-krallinger-85495920/</a><br></font> =======================================</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></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">About BSC</b></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">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.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span><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">Context And Mission</b></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">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.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">The NLP4BIA-BSC is looking for a <b><u>Postdoctoral Research Engineer with experience in Language Technologies and Deep Learning</u></b>. 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.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">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.<br style="box-sizing:border-box">For more information, please check: <a href="https://www.bsc.es/join-us/excellence-career-opportunities/ai4s">https://www.bsc.es/join-us/excellence-career-opportunities/ai4s</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><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">Key Duties</b><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></div><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.6em 0px 1.2em;padding:0px 1em 0px 1.8em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Roboto Condensed",sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-align:justify"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;list-style-type:none;margin:0px 0px 0.8em;text-align:left">Generation of Large Language Models</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;list-style-type:none;margin:0px 0px 0.8em;text-align:left">NLP system development: Development of monolingual and multilingual content classification and entity recognition systems</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;list-style-type:none;margin:0px 0px 0.8em;text-align:left">Pre-training of monolingual and multilingual language models for biomedicine</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;list-style-type:none;margin:0px 0px 0.8em;text-align:left">Managing projects and technical project coordination</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;list-style-type:none;margin:0px 0px 0.8em;text-align:left">Collaborate in drafting technical research proposals and writing scientific papers.</li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Roboto Condensed",sans-serif;text-align:justify"> </span></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">Requirements</b></div><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.6em 0px 1.2em;padding:0px 1em 0px 1.8em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Roboto Condensed",sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-align:justify"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;list-style-type:none;margin:0px 0px 0.8em;text-align:left;break-inside:avoid"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Education</span><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.6em 0px 1.2em;padding:0px 1em 0px 1.8em"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;list-style-type:none;margin:0px 0px 0.8em;text-align:left">University degree in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, or other engineering / science degree.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;list-style-type:none;margin:0px 0px 0.8em;text-align:left">PhD in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, or similar</li></ul></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;list-style-type:none;margin:20px 0px 0.8em;text-align:left;break-inside:avoid"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience</span><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.6em 0px 1.2em;padding:0px 1em 0px 1.8em"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;list-style-type:none;margin:0px 0px 0.8em;text-align:left">Experience in Natural Language Processing technologies, preferable with some publication track record or projects in the field of LLMs/Deep Learning/NLP</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;list-style-type:none;margin:0px 0px 0.8em;text-align:left">Ability to design, implement, and evaluate existing NLP and LMs models.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;list-style-type:none;margin:0px 0px 0.8em;text-align:left">Experience in developing models using transformer architectures.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;list-style-type:none;margin:0px 0px 0.8em;text-align:left">Practical experience with deep learning libraries (e.g. Pytorch, TensorFlow, Spacy, Transformers…)</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;list-style-type:none;margin:0px 0px 0.8em;text-align:left">Knowledge of deep learning methods for fine-tuning large language models.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;list-style-type:none;margin:0px 0px 0.8em;text-align:left">Advanced programming skills in Python.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;list-style-type:none;margin:0px 0px 0.8em;text-align:left">Experience in software development resources (Git)</li></ul></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;list-style-type:none;margin:20px 0px 0.8em;text-align:left;break-inside:avoid"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience</span><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.6em 0px 1.2em;padding:0px 1em 0px 1.8em"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;list-style-type:none;margin:0px 0px 0.8em;text-align:left">Fluency in English is essential. Proficiency in Spanish and other European languages would be advantageous.</li></ul></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;list-style-type:none;margin:20px 0px 0.8em;text-align:left;break-inside:avoid"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Competences</span><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.6em 0px 1.2em;padding:0px 1em 0px 1.8em"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;list-style-type:none;margin:0px 0px 0.8em;text-align:left">Ability to work in a team and in a multi-cultural environment.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;list-style-type:none;margin:0px 0px 0.8em;text-align:left">Good communication and presentation skills.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;list-style-type:none;margin:0px 0px 0.8em;text-align:left">Technical writing skills.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;list-style-type:none;margin:0px 0px 0.8em;text-align:left">A proactive mindset, with creativity to design new solutions.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;list-style-type:none;margin:0px 0px 0.8em;text-align:left">Ability to work effectively both autonomously and as part of an interdisciplinary team.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;list-style-type:none;margin:0px 0px 0.8em;text-align:left">Comfortable working under pressure and meeting strict deadlines. Proactive working style.</li></ul></li></ul><div style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Roboto Condensed",sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-align:justify;break-inside:avoid"> <div class="gmail-ja-title" style="box-sizing:border-box"><b style="box-sizing:border-box">Conditions</b></div> <div class="gmail-ja-value" style="box-sizing:border-box"><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.6em 0px 1.2em;padding:0px 1em 0px 1.8em"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;list-style-type:none;margin:0px 0px 0.8em;text-align:left">The position will be located at BSC within the Life Sciences Department</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;list-style-type:none;margin:0px 0px 0.8em;text-align:left">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</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;list-style-type:none;margin:0px 0px 0.8em;text-align:left">Duration: 4 years</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;list-style-type:none;margin:0px 0px 0.8em;text-align:left">Holidays: 23 paid vacation days plus 24th and 31st of December per our collective agreement</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;list-style-type:none;margin:0px 0px 0.8em;text-align:left">Salary: 55.000,00 €</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;list-style-type:none;margin:0px 0px 0.8em;text-align:left">Additional Expenses Grant: Each fellowship will be associated with a grant for additional expenses, such as IT equipment, travel, training, stays, etc.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;list-style-type:none;margin:0px 0px 0.8em;text-align:left">Starting date: asap - the incorporation for this vacancy must be before the 16th of December 2024</li></ul></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>