Research Engineer junior position 

Research Engineer junior position 

Job Reference: 20250718_MMDU 

Closing date: 27/07/2025 

About CVC 

The Computer Vision Center (CVC) is a non-profit research center established in 1995 by the Generalitat de Catalunya and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). Its mission is to carry out cutting-edge research that has the highest international impact in the field of computer vision. It also promotes the transference of knowledge to industry and society.  

Computer vision is an exciting research area and an omnipresent technology, essentially empowering machines with the sense of vision. The CVC is a successful marriage between knowledge and innovation. In addition to our cutting-edge scientific achievements, we have established lasting ties with industrial partners and created several spin-off companies. 

Context and Mission 

The Vision, Language and Reading group is looking for an junior engineer to collaborate on the development of Multimodal models for Document Undestanding. 

The successful candidate will work on Comics analysis, in collaboration with researchers of the Vision, Language and Reading research group. 

This position is linked to the project “Multimodal LLMs for Document Undestanding” (MuDocU), financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science.  

Proyecto PID2023-146426NB-100 financiado por MICIU/AEI /10.13039/501100011033 y por FEDER, UE. 

Key Duties 

  • Data management, pre-processing annotation 
  • Assist with the development and training of Deep learning models 
  • Management of the GPU cluster of the Vision, Language and Reading group 

Requirements:  

  • Education 
    • Computer science degree (or a student finalizing the studies) 
  • Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience 
    • Previous experience in deep learning, transformer architectures,  
    • Good programming skills in Pytorch, Tensorflow, or similar frameworks 
  • Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience
    •  Publications in relevant forums 
    • Previous experience in the document understanding field 
  • Competences 
    • Fluency in spoken and written English 
    • Ability to think creatively, work independently and make decisions. 
    • Ability to take initiative, prioritize and work under set deadlines and pressure 
    • The candidate must be an effective communicator, multitask, and work well on collaborative and interdisciplinary designs. 
  • Other merits 
    • Experience superior to that required in similar positions is valued. 
    • Valuable experience in Catalan public research entities. 
  • Evaluation of applications: 
  • Candidatures that meet the above requirements will be evaluated using the following criteria: 
    • Requirements of the candidates (up to 60 points). 
    • Other merits (up to 40 points). 

Conditions  

  • The position will be located at Computer Vision Center (Campus Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona). 
  • We offer a full-time contract (37.5h/week) temporary contract, a good environment, flexible working hours 
  • Salary in accordance with qualifications and experience of the candidate and to CVCs salary regulations. 
  • Starting date: September 1st 2025 

Applications procedure and process 

All applications must be sent through the online form and include a full CV and contact details. 

OTM-R principles for selection processes 

The CVC is committed to Open Transparent and Merit-based Recruitment (OTM-R) for any potential candidate in all our processes. In 2015 we received the Human Resources Strategy for Researchers (HRS4R) award. Through an extensive and continuous process, we improve the conditions and opportunities at CVC. With these actions, the CVC is committed to the principles of the European Charter for Researchers, as well as the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. 

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