Technical Coordination Lead Officer

Reference: 414_26_AII_SMART_TCL Job title: Technical Coordination Lead Officer

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 Single- and Multi-Agent Research (SMART) group focuses on researching, evaluating and implementing formally-grounded and verifiable methods and frameworks for understanding and designing intelligent agents, mainly but not limited to logical-symbolic, reinforcement learning and LLM-augmented (agentic) agents. Our research group has been consistently developing contributions in the field of multi-agent systems from several perspectives, including efficient methods for combining symbolic and sub-symbolic forms of reasoning; scalable architectures for parallel distributed execution of large volumes of agents; mechanisms and languages for encoding, interpreting and analysing the effects of social values and norms; and explainability methods in cooperative and competitive settings. We are looking for a research engineer to support and lead a number of ongoing research projects in Artificial Intelligence. These projects involve knowledge areas such as agents, explainability, autonomous decision-making, multi-agent coordination and communication, and AI systems in general, applied to a wide range of use cases. The selected candidate will be responsible for the day-to-day advancements and follow-up of project activities, including technical coordination, management, research and engineering support when needed. The role involves working closely with other engineers and research and support teams, technical staff, and external collaborators, ensuring that milestones, deliverables, and reporting obligations are met in accordance with funding requirements.

Key Duties

• Participate in engineering activities, including development and experimentation of artificial intelligence methods.

• Coordinate research project technical activities, including planning, execution, and tracking.

• Monitor project timelines and technical deliverables.

• Facilitate communication between researchers, developers, and external partners.

• Contribute to the preparation of technical reports, project documentation, and dissemination materials (in collaboration with dissemination professionals).

• Contribute to the preparation of new project proposals in collaboration with the PMO.

• Help ensure alignment with data protection, ELSEC, and open science requirements.

Requirements

• Education

  • Degree in a STEM field, ideally related to Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science or Software Engineering

• Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience

  • Experience in participating in research or innovation projects (2 years of experience)
  • Familiarity with AI or intelligent systems, either through work or academic background (3 years of experience)

• Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience

  • Experience working with publicly funded R&D projects (e.g. Horizon Europe, national programs)
  • Experience writing research proposals
  • Experience in writing scientific papers
  • Experience in multi-agent systems
  • Experience in reinforcement learning
  • Experience in designing or implementing intelligent agents
  • Mathematical and formal logics background is desirable

• Competences

  • Ability to work in multidisciplinary environments
  • Strong communication and organizational skills

Conditions

• 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

• Starting date: 01/11/2026

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:

• Curriculum Analysis: Evaluation of previous experience and/or scientific history, degree, training, and other professional information relevant to the position. - 40 points
• 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