The UPM offers 8 positions available for the creation of the Spanish Data Space Incubator (INESData): project manager, business developer, data scientists, knowledge graph engineers, a computational linguist and a front-end developer. Deadline: 30-04-2023 (or until the positions are filled in)

BASIC INFO

PROJECT: INESData: Infraestructura para la Investigación de ESpacios de DAtos distribuidos en UPM

ABOUT US: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) is Spain´s largest technological university, and an influential European institution of higher education, covering all engineering fields and architecture. More than 2,400 researchers carry out their activities at the UPM, grouped in more than 200 Research Groups, 20 Research Centers and Institutes and 55 Laboratories, committed to transform knowledge into innovation, applied to the productive sector, and contributing to solve the challenges of the European citizens. UPM is recognized as one of the best 75 world´s top universities in engineering and architecture, ranking among the 94 best in the world in terms of employability. As for its presence in European research and innovation activities, UPM is the first university in terms of participation in the European Framework Programme, with more than 116M euros from Horizon 2020. UPM is also an institution committed to the transfer of knowledge to society and to supporting the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set up by the United Nations General Assembly. In conclusion, UPM is open to anyone who wants to learn, research, and share their talent in any of our institution branches of knowledge.

NUMBER OF POSITIONS AVAILABLE: 8

CONTEXT AND MISSION: Two UPM research centres are involved in the INESData project: The Information Processing and Telecommunications Center (IPTC) and the Research Center on Artificial Intelligence AI.NNOVATION SPACE. In particular, candidates would join the GATV research team (https://www.gatv.ssr.upm.es/index.php/en/) at the Telecommunications Engineering School or the Ontology Engineering Group (OEG) (https://oeg.fi.upm.es/) at the Computer Engineering School of UPM.

INESData - Infraestructura para la INvestigación de ESpacios de DAtos distribuidos en UPM - Infrastructure for the Investigation of Distributed Data Spaces at UPM is a project funded the Spanish Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation under the umbrella of the UNICO I+D CLOUD programme in the context of the PRTR project (funded by NextGenerationEU), with a total budget of 5M€. INESData aims to create one of the first incubators of data spaces in Spain. It will setup the governance schemes and the technical infrastructure needed for the deployment of data spaces in a varied set of domains.

In the context of this exciting project, several building blocks will be deployed to support data space generation (identity provider, metadata broker, app store, clearing house, vocabulary provider, connectors, ontology maintenance services, data collection and sharing services, knowledge graph generation and maintenance services, natural language processing services based on language models, language resources, cloud-edge distribution and computing services, and much more). Furthermore, a Data Space Support Center will be put in place for Spanish organisations interested in setting up data sharing models in specific domains (following GAIA-X, IDSA, FIWARE and BDVA principles, and the upcoming SIMPL middleware).

Of particular interest will be the creation of a language data space for all languages in Spain, and at least three domain-specific data spaces in the domains of mobility, procurement and media. We expect this Data Space Support Center to incubate data spaces in additional domains in the upcoming years. To achieve our mission, we are now hiring. If you would like to involve in this high-impact initiative as well as a be part of this thriving research and engineering environment, please send your CV to ofertas@delicias.dia.fi.upm.es

WORK LOCATIONS: C/Ciruelos 2 - 28660 Boadilla del Monte (Madrid)

HIRING INFO

POSITIONS AVAILABLE AND KEY DUTIES:

INESData-PM (Senior Project Manager). Salary range: 40.000€-50.000€

• Overview and coordination of a complex, multi-layered strategic project.
• Planning, execution and monitoring of project progress for optimal management of project scope, in terms of resources, quality and objectives.
• Risk management.
• Data management plan preparation and follow up.
• Distributing and prioritizing tasks among assigned resources and suppliers.
• Networking tasks with institutions and entities in the areas of interest
• Communication and dissemination in project-related events
• Organize and prepare project meetings, TC, workshop, conferences, scientific related committees (logistic, agenda, inviting participants, writing minutes, etc).
• Periodic reporting activities (excluding financial reporting).
• Participation in complementary grant applications
• Be aware of cloud(-edge) initiatives in Europe and plan the liaison

INESData-Bus (Senior Business Developer). Salary range: 40.000€-50.000€

• Identify and evaluate new opportunities and partnerships to create new data spaces
• Create a private-public ecosystem around the data spaces to be developed in the project
• Develop and maintain relationships with data space stakeholders
• Organize events and create and deliver effective presentations
• Develop and implement strategies to provide sustainability to the incubator
• Participate in networking events and industry conferences to promote the incubator and identify new opportunities
• Monitor and report on key performance indicators (KPIs)
• Participation in complementary grant applications

INESData-DS-1 e INESData-DS-2 (Senior and Junior Data Scientists). Salary range: 30.000€-40.000€

• Collect, process, and analyse large volumes of structured and unstructured data from various sources to extract insights and patterns. Such volumes can come from different data modalities: text, image, video, audio…
• Develop statistical and machine learning models to predict outcomes, classify data, and identify relationships among variables
• Analyse the application of eXplainable AI techniques for these models
• Communicate complex data analysis and modeling results to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Stay up-to-date with the latest developments in data science techniques, tools, and technologies and apply new methodologies and techniques as appropriate
• Be able to process the data with AI computing frameworks CPU based or GPU (acceleration board) based
• Ensure data quality and consistency across all data sources, in coordination with the Knowledge Graph engineers, and adhere to best practices in data governance and privacy.
• Implement the solutions in a cloud-based environment

INESData-KGE-1 e INESData-KGE-2 (Senior and Junior Knowledge Graph Engineers). Salary range: 30.000€-40.000€

• Design and implement knowledge graphs for each of the data spaces
• Develop ontologies that represent the data space domain and data sources
• Integrate and link data from various sources to create coherent knowledge graphs
• Creating and maintaining tools and workflows for knowledge graph creation, management, and maintenance
• Ensure the quality and accuracy of the knowledge graph and resolve data quality issues that arise
• Develop and implement data governance policies and best practices
• Collaborate with data scientists, machine learning engineers, and other stakeholders to use the knowledge graph to support data-driven decision making
• Implement the solutions in a cloud-based environment

INESData-CL (Senior Computational Linguists)). Salary range: 30.000€-40.000€

• Develop and implement natural language processing (NLP) algorithms and models that can process and analyze large amounts of multimodal (text, image video, audio) data.
• Design and develop NLP services for various tasks in the domains of interest
• Design and develop NLP services that exploit massive textual corpora and combine neural architectures with traditional techniques
• Evaluate the performance of NLP models using standard evaluation metrics
• Stay up-to-date with the latest research and industry trends in NLP, and participate in conferences, workshops, and other professional events to share knowledge and network with other researchers and practitioners in the field.
• Implement the solutions in a cloud-based environment

INESData-Fed (Senior Front-End Developer) Salary range: 30.000€-40.000€

• Design and develop user-friendly, responsive, and accessible UI (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript).
• Collaborate with back-end developers
• Optimize the UI for speed, performance, and scalability.
• Maintain and update the UI regularly, ensuring that it remains functional, secure, and up-to-date with the latest technologies and design trends

JOB STATUS: Full time

HOURS PER WEEK: 37,5

SALARY OFFERED: Negotiated according to the experience

APPLICATION DEADLINE: 30-04-2023

ESTIMATED DATE OF JOB CONTRACT: 01-05-2023

TERM OF CONTRACT: Until 30-06-2025

APPLICATION

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CONTACT PERSON: OEG Staff

REQUIREMENTS

REQUIRED EDUCATION LEVEL:

• Graduate or Master

OTHERS:

• Excellent communication and writing skills in English and Spanish
• Ability to work in a team

REQUIRED LANGUAGES:

Language 1: English

• Reading level: High
• Writing level: High
• Conversation level: High

Language 2: Spanish

• Reading level: High
• Writing level: High
• Conversation level: High

Others: Ontology Engineering Group

Deathline for curriculum vitae admission: April, 30 at 23:59.