Team leader MLOps, Language Technologies (RE3_T1) - AI4S

Job Reference

521_24_LS_LT_RE3-T1

Position

Team leader MLOps, Language Technologies (RE3_T1) - AI4S

Data de tancament

Dilluns, 30 Setembre, 2024
Reference: 521_24_LS_LT_RE3-T1
Job title: Team leader MLOps, Language Technologies (RE3_T1) - AI4S

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 1000 staff from 60 countries.

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We are particularly interested for this role in the strengths and lived experiences of women and underrepresented groups to help us avoid perpetuating biases and oversights in science and IT research. In instances of equal merit, the incorporation of the under-represented sex will be favoured.

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 a 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 government, 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 three flagship projects at the national and regional level: the Spanish National Language Technology Plan and ILENIA 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 Unit at BSC is looking for an MLOps team leader with experience in designing and shipping internal tools specifically for automating the development, deployment and monitoring of ML models. The MLOps team leader will work with a team of engineers that will develop, maintain and optimize ML pipelines to ensure high performance and reliability of ML models, furthermore ensure their effective deployment to the production.
The successful candidate will work in a highly sophisticated HPC environment, will have access to state-of-the-art systems and computational infrastructures.

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

"La financiación de estas actuaciones/becas y contratos, procede del Mecanismo de Recuperación y Resiliencia de la Unión Europea-Next Generation, en el marco de la Invitación General de la entidad pública empresarial Red.es para participar en los programas de atracción y retención del talento dentro de la Inversión 4 del Componente 19 del Plan de Recuperación, Transformación y Resiliencia.
Para más información: https://www.bsc.es/join-us/excellence-career-opportunities/ai4s "

Key Duties

  • Manage a team of MLOps engineers to build and maintain internal tools.
  • Take ownership of the internal product roadmap to ensure continuous delivery.
  • Design and implement ML model continuous integration, continuous deployment and continuous monitoring processes for production.
  • Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for ML models.
  • Configure and automate ML model deployment, monitoring and scaling in production.
  • Implement monitoring and logging of ML models.
  • Identify areas of improvement in ML model lifecycle.
  • Collaborate with data engineers and ML engineers to select best ML model architectures and hyperparameters.
  • Ensure the accessibility of the open software, and the replicability of their deployment via containers based architectures.
  • Maintain the code infrastructure as open source repositories.
  • Auditing the quality of the work submitted by providers, external collaborators.
  • Mentoring junior members of the team

Requirements

  • Education
    • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field.
    • Master’s degree or a PhD will be a plus
  • Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience
    • In-depth knowledge of Linux/Unix systems.
    • Demonstrated experience of at least 2 years in leading engineering teams in the relevant areas.
    • Demonstrable experience with Kubernetes, Docker, or other comparable containerization
    • Demonstrable experience of automating tasks via Python, bash or other scripting tools
    • Hands-on experience with Automation/DevOps tools (such as Github Actions, Gitlab, Jenkins, Ansible etc.)
    • Experience with cloud technology; AWS, Azure/GCP or OpenStack.
    • Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.
  • Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience
    • Strong knowledge of provisioning methods via tools such as Terraform and Helm
    • Strong knowledge of ML model development and deployment tools
    • Good knowledge on security best practices.
    • Fluency in English is essential. Proficiency in Spanish and other European languages would be advantageous.
  • Competences
    • Ability to work independently and in a team to complete tasks on schedule.
    • Ability to work in a multi-cultural environment.
    • 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 (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
  • Duration: 4 years
  • Holidays: 23 paid vacation days plus 24th and 31st of December per our collective agreement
  • Salary: 60.00,00€
  • Additional Expenses Grant: Each fellowship will be associated with a grant for additional expenses, such as IT equipment, travel, training, stays, etc.
  • Starting date: asap - the incorporation for this vacancy must be before the 16th of December 2024

Applications procedure and process

All applications must be submitted via the BSC website and contain:

  • A full CV in English, including contact details.
  • 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.


Development of the recruitment process

The selection will be carried out through a competitive examination system ("Concurso-Oposición"). The recruitment process consists of two phases:

  1. Curriculum Analysis: Evaluation of previous experience and/or scientific history, degree, training, and other professional information relevant to the position. - 40 points
  2. 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 recruitment [at] bsc [dot] es.

For more information, please follow this link.

Deadline

The vacancy will remain open until a suitable candidate has been hired. Applications will be regularly reviewed and potential candidates will be contacted.

OTM-R principles for selection processes

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. For more information follow this link This position is reserved for candidates who meet the requirements and have the legal status of disabled persons with a degree of disability equal to or greater than 33%. In case there are no applicants with disabilities that meet the requirements, the rest of the candidates without declared disability will be evaluated.


Deadline

The vacancy will remain open until a suitable candidate has been hired. Applications will be regularly reviewed and potential candidates will be contacted.

OTM-R principles for selection processes

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.
For more information follow this link
This position is reserved for candidates who meet the requirements and have the legal status of disabled persons with a degree of disability equal to or greater than 33%. In case there are no applicants with disabilities that meet the requirements, the rest of the candidates without declared disability will be evaluated.

Application Form

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