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Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación
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Research Engineer – AI4S – LLMs for Chip Design (RE2)

Context And Mission
The High Performance Domain-specific Architectures group (expert on computer hardware), and the High Performance Artificial Intelligence research group (expert in AI) are pushing a collaboration between both, focused on the integration of AI models for facilitating and improving chip design and validation processes.
This position is intended to work at the intersection of both fields, performing engineering and research oriented tasks through programming, documentation and management.

The funding for these actions/fellowships and contracts comes from the European Union Recovery and Resilience Facility – Next Generation, within the framework of the General Invitation by the public business entity Red.es to participate in the talent attraction and retention programs within Investment 4 of Component 19 of the Recovery, Transformation, and Resilience Plan.
For more information, please check: https://www.bsc.es/join-us/excellence-career-opportunities/ai4s

Key Duties
Contribute to the definition of task-specific applications of AI models for chip related purposes
Lead the data gathering and pre-processing pipelines
Conduct the design and training of AI models
Implement reliable, reproducible and automated training and evaluation methodologies
Document and disseminate the work done
Requirements
EducationDegree in STEM
Essential Knowledge and Professional ExperienceExperience in a research oriented position (1 year minimum)
Experience in writing scientific papers (1 paper minimum)
Experience in tensor networks (6 months minimum)
Experience in optimization problems (6 months minimum)
Additional Knowledge and Professional ExperienceFluent English and Spanish are a must. Catalan is desirable.
Mathematical background is desirable.
CompetencesCapacity to work in multidisciplinary environments
Conditions
The position will be located at BSC within the Computer 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: 4 years
Holidays: 23 paid vacation days plus 24th and 31st of December per our collective agreement
Salary: 42.000,00 €
Starting date: asap – the incorporation for this vacancy must be before the 16th of December 2024