MLOps Engineer for Language Technologies (RE2)

Job description

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 1000 staff from 60 countries.

Reference: 643_25_LS_LT_RE2

Job title: MLOps Engineer for Language Technologies (RE2)

About BSC

We promote Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, fostering an environment where each and every one of us is appreciated for who we are, regardless of our differences.
If you consider that you do not meet all the requirements, we encourage you to continue applying for the job offer.

We value diversity of experiences and skills, and you could bring unique perspectives to our team.

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.

• 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.
  
  

• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field.
  
  
• A master's degree is desired but not essential.
  
  

• 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.).
  
  

• 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.
  
  

• Ability to work independently and in a team to complete tasks on schedule.
  
  
• Ability to work under set deadlines.
  
  

• 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.
  
  
• 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.
  
  

Applications procedure and process

All applications must be submitted via the BSC website and contain a cover/motivation letter with a statement of interest in English, clearly specifying for which specific area and topics the applicant wishes to be considered.

Additionally, two references for further contacts must be included.

Applications without this document will not be considered.

The selection will be carried out through a competitive examination system (Concurso-Oposición).

The recruitment process consists of two phases:

• Curriculum Analysis: Evaluation of previous experience and/or scientific history, degree, training, and other professional information relevant to the position.
  
  40 points.
  
  
• Interview phase: The highest-rated candidates at the curriculum level will be invited to the interview phase, conducted by the corresponding department and Human Resources.
  
  In this phase, technical competencies, knowledge, skills, and professional experience related to the position, as well as the required personal competencies, will be evaluated.
  
  60 points.
  
  A minimum of 30 points out of 60 must be obtained to be eligible for the position.
  
  

The recruitment panel will be composed of at least three people, ensuring at least 25% representation of women.

In accordance with OTM-R principles, a gender-balanced recruitment panel is formed for each vacancy at the beginning of the process.

After reviewing the content of the applications, the panel will begin the interviews, with at least one technical and one administrative interview.

At a minimum, a personality questionnaire as well as a technical exercise will be conducted during the process.

The panel will make a final decision, and all individuals who participated in the interview phase will receive feedback with details on the acceptance or rejection of their profile.

At BSC, we seek continuous improvement in our recruitment processes.

For any suggestions or comments/complaints about our recruitment processes, please contact .

The vacancy will remain open until a suitable candidate has been hired.

Applications will be regularly reviewed and potential candidates will be contacted.

BSC-CNS is committed to the principles of the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers of the European Commission and the Open, Transparent and Merit-based Recruitment principles (OTM-R).

This is applied for any potential candidate in all our processes, for example by creating gender-balanced recruitment panels and recognizing career breaks etc.

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.

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