Dear colleagues,

My group is currently seeking for two new positions (details below)

I would really appreciate sharing to potential interested candidates or lists.

Best regards,

Martin

*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.

*Position 1* *Reference:* 514_23_LS_NLPBIA_RE1 *Job title:* Junior Research Engineer - NLP for Biomedical Information Analysis (RE1) *URL: **https://www.bsc.es/join-us/job-opportunities/51423lsnlpbiare1 https://www.bsc.es/join-us/job-opportunities/51423lsnlpbiare1*

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.

*Key Duties*

- Software Development: Create backend, frontend, and web services, along with web-based demos for NLP tools. - NLP platform Integration: Integrate existing NLP components into the CogStack platform for processing clinical and biomedical content. - Data Processing and Ingestion: Develop scripts for the ingestion, cleaning, and formatting of text data to make it appropriate for neural architectures. - Data Management: Organize and maintain data repositories in alignment with group and project requirements. - Documentation and Reporting: Create technical reports and project documentation in both English and Spanish. - Automated Data Annotation: Use existing state-of-the-art NLP tools to annotate data, improving operational efficiency autonomously. - 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.

*Position 2* *Reference:* 515_23_LS_NLPBIA_RE2 *Job title:* Research Engineer - NLP for Biomedical Information Analysis (RE2) *URL: https://www.bsc.es/join-us/job-opportunities/51523lsnlpbiare2 https://www.bsc.es/join-us/job-opportunities/51523lsnlpbiare2*

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.

*Key Duties*

- 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. - Technical project coordination: Coordinate technical contributions from different partners in technological projects. - Documentation and Reporting: Create technical reports and project documentation in both English and Spanish - Scientific writing: Collaborate in drafting technical research proposals and writing scientific papers.

*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, 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.