Research Engineer - Use of Acoustic Information in

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• 65_24_LS_LT_RE1 Position :

• Research Engineer - Use of acoustic information in chatbots (RE1) Closing Date :

• Saturday, 16 March, 2024 Reference : 65_24_LS_LT_RE1 Job title : Research Engineer - Use of acoustic information in chatbots (RE1) 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.

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• The Language Technology Group in the Life Sciences Department is looking for a Master's student to work in the use of acoustic information in chatbots, involving Catalan. This work will be part of the ongoing AINA project to generate technology and language resources for the Catalan language.- Key Duties

• Develop innovative modules to optimize DL speech recognition systems with prompting

• Participate in internal group meetings and other scientific discussions

• Preparation and presentation of scientific articles

• Collaborate in the preparation and presentation of scientific projects

• Collaborate with the members of the group in the generation and evaluation of resources in Catalan

Requirements :

• Education
• Bachelor in Electronic engineering or Computer Science, with specialization in speech processing and recognition, and background in computation
• Enroled in a Master's Degree with specialization in Multimedia
• Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience
• Programming skills Linux, BASH, Python, MATLAB, VOSK
• VSCode, Git, Pyrubberband
• Ability to access and evaluate scientific literature.
• Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience
• Experience Native competence in Catalan
• Fluency in spoken and written Spanish and English
• Strong interest in Speech and Natural Language Processing
• Competences
• Good communication and presentation skills
• Ability to work both independently and within a team

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, support to the relocation procedures
• Duration: Open-ended contract due to technical and scientific activities linked to the project and budget duration
• Holidays: 23 paid vacation days plus 24th and 31st of December per our collective agreement
• Starting date: asap

Applications procedure and process - A full CV in English including contact details

• A Cover Letter with a statement of interest in English, including two contacts for further references - Applications without this document will not be considered

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