Reference Number: 2026/CP/212

Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?: No

Offer Description

Grant/funding reference: ED431C 2025/49

Job title: Grants for the consolidation and structuring of competitive research units and other support actions in the public universities of the Galician University System (SUG), in public research organizations in Galicia, and in other entities of the Galician R&D&i system.

Research line / Scientific-technical services: Bayesian Models for Information Retrieval

Grant/funding period: START: 01/01/2025 END: 31/12/2028

Centre of Principal Researcher: Faculty of Computer Science

PURPOSE OF CONTRACT: Collaboration in research tasks

Collaborator on activities related to the project/agreement stated.

JOB LOCATION AND SCHEDULE: Faculty of Computer Science. Laboratory 4.2. Monday to Friday, from 09:00 to 12:30

Reference: ED431C 2025/49

Title: Grants for the consolidation and structuring of competitive research units and other support actions in public universities of the Galician University System (SUG), in public research organizations in Galicia and in other entities of the Galician R&D&I system.

Budget Item: 0599250140 541A 64902

Center: Faculty of Informatics

Contract Object: Research support technician

PI: Javier Parapar López

Details of the Call:

The tasks associated with this action are scheduled to end on 31 October 2027, and the contract is linked to the duration of those tasks.

Tasks to be carried out:

• Collaboration on the technical support and systems administration tasks required for the group’s activities under the direction of the principal investigator (PI), in particular:
• Collaboration on the administration and maintenance of the group’s server infrastructure: users, permissions, storage, backups, monitoring and incident resolution.
• Collaboration on the operation and configuration of the computing environment—including queues and partitions, resource policies and job management—and support for running experiments in Slurm, especially those involving large language models.
• Collaboration on the deployment, updating and maintenance of software and execution environments for research—including dependencies, containers and reproducible environments—as well as on documenting technical procedures for use of the infrastructure.

JUSTIFICATION OF THE CONTRACT DURATION:

The tasks indicated must be completed during the 2026 and 2027 financial years, in accordance with the project application memorandum.

Where to apply

Website: https://sede.udc.gal/services/electronic_board/EXP2026/008818

Requirements

Research Field: Engineering » Computer engineering

Education Level: Bachelor Degree or equivalent

Skills/Qualifications

Graduate in Data Science and Engineering / Computer Engineering

Additional Information

Eligibility criteria

Merit evaluation criteria:

• Undergraduate academic record: up to 10 points.
• Certified English proficiency: up to 3 points. Only the highest officially certified level will be assessed, according to the following scale: A1: 0.10 points; A2: 0.25 points; B1: 0.75 points; B2: 1.25 points; C1: 2 points; C2: 3 points.
• Personal interview: up to 3 points. The technical suitability of the profile for the tasks described in the call will be assessed. The interview score will be used exclusively to select the person to be hired and will not count towards the reserve list.
• Professional or research experience, or experience gained through internships or research fellowships, duly documented, in tasks directly related to the purpose of the contract: administration and maintenance of Linux servers and systems; use of Slurm/HPC infrastructure; and deployment and maintenance of containers and reproducible environments. Applicants will receive 0.50 points for each month of experience, with proportional adjustment for part-time work, up to a maximum of 5 points.

Overlapping periods may not be counted more than once.

Applicants who are not selected and obtain more than 10 points from the sum of the documentary merits—academic record, English proficiency and relevant experience—will be placed on a reserve list ranked according to the score obtained in those sections. The personal interview score will not count for inclusion in or ranking of the reserve list.

Selection process

APPLICATION PROCESS

WHERE TO APPLY: UDC online services site.

Applications should be addressed to the Office of the Vice-Rectorate for Research and Transference, and include the call reference.

DEADLINE: 5 working days from the day following the publication of the call on the official bulletin board of the UDC online services site.

SELECTION COMMITTEE AND PUBLICATION OF RESULTS

SELECTION COMMITTEE (minimum 3 members and 3 reserves): COMISIÓN DE SELECCIÓN (mínimo tres titulares y tres suplentes): Javier Parapar López (TU), Miguel Anxo Pérez Vila (AD), Paloma Piot Pérez-Abadín (PR-MC). Suplentes: David Otero Freijeiro (AD) Concepción Vidal Martín (TU), Felicidad Aguado Martín (TU)

PLACE OF PUBLICATION OF RESULTS: Official bulletin board of the UDC online services site.

Additional comments

General required documentation:

1. Copy of national identity document or passport
2. Copy of degree certificate in Spanish or English. If obtained outside the European Union it must be apostilled or legalised by the Spanish Embassy.
3. CV in English or Spanish/Galician
4. Responsible declaration that the requirements of the call are fulfilled.
5. Responsible declaration of the veracity of the data stated in the application

If you are a candidate from abroad of Spain, please contact euraxess.vit@udc.es for instructions on how to apply to this call.

Work Location(s)

Number of offers available: 1

Company/Institute: Faculty of Computer Science

Country: Spain

Geofield

Contact

State/Province: A Coruña

City: A Coruña

Website: https://www.udc.es/

Street: A Maestranza 9

Postal Code: 15071

E-Mail: vit@udc.es