28.5405, Jobs: English; Spanish; Computational Linguistics: NLP Platform Development Engineer, Barcelona Supercomputing Center

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Subject: 28.5405, Jobs:  English; Spanish; Computational Linguistics: NLP Platform Development Engineer, Barcelona Supercomputing Center

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Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 20:27:42
From: Carla Santamaria [rrhh at bsc.es]
Subject: English; Spanish; Computational Linguistics: NLP Platform Development Engineer, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain

 
University or Organization: Barcelona Supercomputing Center 
Job Location: Barcelona, Spain 
Job Title: NLP Platform Development Engineer
Job Rank: Programmer

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics 

Required Language(s): English (eng)
                      Spanish (spa) 

Description:

The CASE department of the National Supercomputing Center - Barcelona
Supercomputing Center seeks Natural Language Processing experts for a newly
established Language Technologies R&D group. CASE will host a Technical
Management Office (OTG) and a reference center to support the Plan for the
Advancement of Language Technology through scalable processing platforms and
the use of HPC (High Performance Computing). 

BSC-CASE is looking for a NLP Platform Development Engineer.

Key Duties:
- Collaborate in the design of the OTG processing platform. 
- Responsible of the technological part of the project with regard to the
definition and implementation of the OTG and the OTG-supported projects. 
- Lead the development of the platform’s scalability through the use of High
Performance Computing techniques.

Education:
- Computer Science or Telecommunications degree.

Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience:
- Extensive experience in text processing software projects. 
- Experience in a wide spectrum of R&D projects at the European and national
levels.
- Demonstrable experience, of at least five years, in installation,
configuration, administration and operation of robust natural language
processing architectures outside of academic lab environments and in
industrial contexts. Experience with Mallet, IXA-pipes, GATE, Stanford,
Freeling, etc. will be especially valued.
- Ability to write well documented technical reports.
- Demonstrable experience, of at least two years, in projects that incorporate
continuous integration environments (SVN, Git, Jenkins, Maven, etc).
- Demonstrable experience in HPC environments such as: MPI, OpenMP, OpenCL,
CUDA, and in the performance evaluation of HPC applications.
- Knowledge and coding experience in programming languages relevant to the
project, including Python, Java, C++, etc.
- Demonstrable experience, of at least two years, in the installation,
configuration, administration and operation of Docker containers and elements
of the Docker ecosystem (Docker Registry, Docker Swarm, Docker Compose, Docker
Machine, Kubernetes, etc).
- Demonstrable knowledge in applications based on Big Data technologies and
distributed computing.
- Working knowledge of machine learning techniques.
- Working knowledge of English.

Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience:
- Scientific curiosity and proactive initiative to solve complex technical
problems.
- Basic knowledge of Spanish and some other co-official language of the
Spanish State.
- Ability to work as a team player, and lead other software developers in the
project.

Conditions:
- We offer a full-time contract, a good working environment, a highly
stimulating environment with state-of-the-art infrastructure, flexible hours,
extensive training plan, tickets restaurant, private health insurance, fully
support to the relocation procedures
- Salary: we offer a competitive salary commensurate with the qualifications
and experience of the candidate and according to the cost of living in
Barcelona
- Duration of the contract: 1 year renewable until 3 years, with a test period
of 6 months

BSC-CNS is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion.
We are pleased to consider all qualified applicants for employment without
regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity,
national origin, age, disability or any other basis protected by applicable
state or local law.



Application Deadline: 28-Feb-2018 
	  
Web Address for Applications: https://www.bsc.es/join-us/job-opportunities/3casenlpre2 
Contact Information:
	Carla Santamaria Giménez 
	Email: rrhh at bsc.es 


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