MLOps Engineer for Language Technologies (RE2)

Context And Mission The Language Technologies Unit at BSC has consolidated experience in several NLP areas, such as massive language model building, biomedical text mining, machine translation and unsupervised learning for under-resourced languages and domains.

It has been entrusted by the Spanish and the Catalan governments with the mission to develop fundamental open- source resources and technologies for Spanish and Catalan.

In connection with this, the LT Unit is currently in charge of two flagship projects at the national and regional level: the ALIA project, funded by the Spanish Secretariat of Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence, and the AINA project, aimed at developing AI resources for Catalan, funded by the Catalan Digitalisation Department.

In addition, the Unit participates in various EU funded international projects.

The LT Lab is looking for Devops / MLOps engineers with experience in automating the development, deployment and monitoring of both software applications and LLM / ML models.

The MLOps engineer will develop, maintain and optimize the LT Lab’s infrastructure and pipelines related to LLM and ML models to ensure their high performance and reliability.

Este contrato se encuentra financiado por el proyecto “DESARROLLO DE MODELOS DEL LENGUAJE EN EL MARCO DEL PLAN NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGÍAS DEL LENGUAJE, EL PERTE DE NUEVA ECONOMÍA DE LA LENGUA Y EL PLAN DE RECUPERACIÓN, TRANSFORMACIÓN Y RESILIENCIA- FINANCIADO POR LA UNIÓN EUROPEA – NEXTGENERATION EU”, con referencia externa 2023EtL00054, promovido por la Secretaría de Estado de Digitalización e Inteligencia Artificial (SEDIA), cuyos fondos provienen del Ministerio para la Transformación Digital y de la Función Pública, financiado por la Unión Europea-NextGenerationEU».

Key Duties

Collaborate with data engineers and ML engineers to improve Language Technologies tools and services (MLOPs platform, HPC tooling, containerized services).

Ensure the accessibility of the open software, and the replicability of their deployment via containers based architectures.

Develop and maintain Language Technologies infrastructure, improve monitoring and logging.

Design and implement ML model continuous integration, continuous deployment and continuous monitoring processes for production.

Identify areas of improvement in the ML model lifecycle.

Requirements Education

A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field.

A master's degree is desired but not essential.

Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience

In-depth knowledge of Linux / Unix systems.

Demonstrable experience of automating tasks via Python, bash or other scripting tools.

Experience with containers and VMs (docker, portainer, openstack) or other similar solutions.

Knowledge of Automation / DevOps / MLOps tools (such as Github Actions, Gitlab, Jenkins, airflow, mlflow, kubeflow, etc.)

Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience

Knowledge of HuggingFace ecosystem and cloud hyperscalers technology (AWS, Azure / GCP)

Experience in open source software development.

Knowledge of GPU‑based computing, including multi‑gpu / multi‑node parallelization techniques will be valued.

Fluency in spoken and written Spanish and English.

Knowledge of other Spanish co‑official languages will be valued.

Competences

Ability to work independently and in a team to complete tasks on schedule.

Ability to work under set deadlines.

Conditions

The position will be located at BSC within the Life Sciences Department

We offer a full‑time contract 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 : Until 31 / 03 / 2025

Holidays : 23 paid vacation days plus 24th and 31st of December per our collective agreement

Salary : we offer a competitive salary commensurate with the qualifications and experience of the candidate and according to the cost of living in Barcelona

Starting date : asap

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