ML engineer for speech technology

The Speech Team at the newly established AI Institute hosted at BSC brings together extensive expertise in several areas, including automatic speech recognition, speech synthesis, and speech LLMs, with a particular emphasis on low-resource languages and settings. In addition, the AI Institute has been entrusted by both the Spanish and Catalan governments with the mission of developing foundational open-source resources and technologies for Spanish and Catalan. The team is seeking a Machine Learning Engineer with experience in speech technologies, particularly in deep learning and model development for speech synthesis.

• Participation in current projects related to TTS technologies, including but not limited to research, documentation and deliverables
• Preparation and presentation of scientific articles
• Supervision junior research engineers
• Participation in internal group meetings and other scientific discussions

• A master's degree in Electronic engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics or related, with specialization in speech processing and recognition, and background in computation
• Demonstrated experience of at least 4 years in machine learning
• Demonstrated experience of at least 2 years in deep learning frameworks and in the relevant area(s)
• Linux, Python, Deep learning libraries, git, HF
• Ability to access and evaluate scientific literature
• Ability to work under set deadlines
• Good communication skills in English, both oral and written.
• Будет плюсом: Catalan and Spanish are a plus

• The position will be located at BSC within the Directors Department
• We offer a full-time contract (35h/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: 22 days of holidays + 6 personal days + 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