Research Technician Computer Engineer with programming and AI experience applied to Healthcare data - HappyMums -

The role:

As part of the Exposome team, we offer an exciting Computer Engineer position at the Universitat de Barcelona and its Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Lab (BCN-AIM). The tasks of the selected technician will include:

• Development of the federated learning framework in the Exposome projects guaranteeing quality and security of the communication between the central and local servers  
• System and data organization: administration of research data and GPU servers, permissions, accounts, efficient data transfers, etc. 
• Machine Learning research experiments support: efficient GPU utilization, experiments tracking, among others 
• Keeping track of the scientific and technical knowledge base, making sure manuals are up to date etc. 

We are thus seeking candidates with a BSc degree in computer engineering and good programming skills to develop any additional engineering tasks required to develop the project, web-page development skills, experience with data harmonization, experience with Linux, bash, server administration, data transfers, and CUDA. The selected candidate will need to be passionate about building systems from scratch and doing things the right way.

The group:

The candidate will join the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Lab (www.bcn-aim.org), which is an integral part of the University of Barcelona’s Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science. It is a young and dynamic research lab, highly active in international projects, and composed of 18 enthusiastic academics, researchers, students, and research managers, with expertise in data science, machine/deep learning, biomedical informatics, biomedical ethics, and health-related applications.

The field of research:

Conceived in 2005 as a way to represent the environmental, non-genetic drivers of health and disease, the field of exposome investigates all the exposures of an individual in a lifetime and how they relate to health. It is an interdisciplinary field of research where psychiatry, biology, ecology, bioinformatics, and neurology are in constant dialogue in order to provide effective tools for preventing, treating, and identifying the development of diseases linked to a wide range of exposures.

The institution:

The University of Barcelona (UB), founded in 1450, is one of the oldest universities in Spain. It comprises a student body of 84,370 and 4,548 research staff members. With 73 undergraduate programs, 273 graduate programs and 48 doctorate programs, UB is the largest university in Barcelona and Catalonia. The UB is ranked the first Spanish university according to several rankings (QS World University Rankings 2020, ARWU/Shanghai Ranking 2020). It is particularly interested in fostering international relations and, for many years, has managed an average of 150 European projects per year. Since January 2010, the University of Barcelona is part of the prestigious League of European Universities Research (LERU).

Gross salary per year: 37.037,72 €