JUNIOR RESEARCH ENGINEER - TRUSTWORTHY AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES (RE1)

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 900 staff from 55 countries.
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In instances of equal merit, the incorporation of the under-represented sex will be favoured.
Context And Mission   Considering Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities and potential risks, and taking into account its limitations, AI4CCAM will develop an open environment for integrating trustworthy-by-design AI models of vulnerable road user behaviour anticipation in urban traffic conditions, and accounting for improved road safety and user acceptance.
Leveraging the Trustworthy AI guidelines for general intelligent software systems and the ethics recommendations for connected automated vehicles, AI4CCAM will support AI-based scenarios management in which pedestrian/cyclist behaviour anticipation models will integrate visual gaze estimation and where explainable ego car trajectory prediction models are simulated with ethical dilemmas and multiplied with generative adversarial networks and metamorphic testing techniques.
The purpose is to give technical support to the WP3 devoted to ELSEC AI activities, in particular to contribute to the task of identifying biases in datasets through explainability methods.
Este contrato es parte del proyecto "Inteligencia Artificial distribuida para el diagnóstico y tratamiento temprano de enfermedades con gran prevalencia en el envejecimiento", financiado por el Ministerio para la Transformación Digital y de la Función Pública por la convocatoria Programa Misiones de l+D en Inteligencia Artificial y cofinanciación con fondos europeos provenientes del Mecanismo de Recuperación y Resiliencia (MRR).
Key Duties   Support in ELSEC AI activities in the field of AI in CCAM Develop a comparative framework of explainability methods and indicators Work in a multidisciplinary environment   Requirements   Education Degree in Computer Sciences, Mathematics or related fields Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience Experience/ knowledge on ML/DL methods Understanding on XAI Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience Fluent in English (oral and writing) MsC in Artificial Intelligence is recommended Competences Strong personal soft-skills sets.
Communicative, enthusiastic, highly collaborative, proactive, self-driven Technical writing skills Good writing and presentation skills   Conditions   The position will be located at BSC within the Computer Sciences Department We offer a full-time contract (37.
h/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.
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 Starting date.
1st of June   Applications procedure and process   All applications must be made through BSC website and contain.
A full CV in English including contact details A Cover Letter with a statement of interest in English, including two contacts for further references - Applications without this document will not be considered In accordance with the OTM-R principles, a gender-balanced recruitment panel is formed for every vacancy at the beginning of the process.
After reviewing the content of the applications, the panel will start the interviews, with at least one technical and one administrative interview.
A profile questionnaire as well as a technical exercise may be required during the process.
The panel will make a final decision and all candidates who had contacts with them will receive a feedback with details on the acceptance or rejection of their profile.
At BSC we are seeking continuous improvement in our recruitment processes, for any suggestions or feedback/complaints about our Recruitment Processes, please contact recruitment [at] bsc [dot] es.
For more information 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.
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