Specialist Technician - Perisurgical physiopathology and pain group (20h/week)

REF. 25-184_SS_AS

About the research group

The Perisurgical physiopathology and pain group carries out research in the areas of perioperative medice, pain, and anesthesia in traumatology, emergency medicine and emergency medical care.

About the role

We are looking for a Master’s Thesis student to join the AIINANE project at the Hospital Universitario de Bellvitge. Your mission will be to design and implement a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline that supports an intelligent chatbot capable of answering patients’ questions about their preoperative process in a safe, reliable, and clinically validated manner.
Moreover, you will be supporting the development of the software Aiinane. This includes front-end and back-end tasks.

Job requirements

Professional experience

• No prior experience required.

Education and training

•  Bachelors degree in Computer Science, AI, Data Science, or a related field 

Technical & soft skills

• Strong programming skills, preferably in Python.
• Some experience with front-end or back-end development (even at a basic level).
• Ability to work independently and collaborate within a multidisciplinary team.
• Good communication and critical-thinking abilities

Languages

• Good command of English, Spanish, and Catalan

We will value, but not required

• Enrollment in a Masters degree in Computer Science, AI, Data Science, or related.
• Basic understanding of MLOps or containerization (e.g., Docker).
• Experience with RAG frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, Haystack, etc.).
• Familiarity with NLP or LLM-based systems.

What do we offer

•  No. of positions: 1
•  Estimated start date: 19/01/2026
•  Contract duration: 6 months
•  Estimated annual gross salary: 14.500€
•  You will be part of a multicultural team. We have a fun loving and friendly international work environment.
•  Flexible working schedule - We know you have a life outside of work and we will work with you to make sure it's kept that way.
•  Possibility to work some days in remote -Teleworking
•  26 working days of holiday per year
•  System of accumulated hours for employees, from 88 to 104 hours depending on the year (11 to 13 working days), to attend to personal matters.
•  Paid leave package
•  Benefits of constant training are offered
•  We offer and promote diverse and inclusive conditions. Applicants are made free from any discrimination. Specifically IDIBELL works to improve gender equality in all areas with the aim of achieving gender balance, but maintaining the most scrupulous respect to any choice at the level of gender identity. Please express yourself freely, safely and non-binarily, if that's the case.

Deadline: Please submit your application by  24/12/2025

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Our institute

IDIBELL is a research center that integrates the biomedical research of the Bellvitge University Hospital (HUB), the Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO), and the University of Barcelona in the Bellvitge Campus (UB), and the Viladecans Hospital (HV). The research focuses of IDIBELL are cancer, neuroscience, translational medicine and regenerative medicine. Research, innovation and society are the pivots on which researchers work every day in order to improve the quality of life of citizens.

Observations:

The 'HR Excellence in Research' award represents IDIBELL’s commitment to the implementation of Human Resources policies, which oversee the attracting and development of talent in an open, transparent, and based on personal merit, in alignment with the principles of the European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment Researchers (Charter and Code).

IDIBELL is committed to the principles of the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers of the European Commission and the implementation of open, transparent and merit-based recruitment (OTMR).

The project that gave rise to these results has received funding from the ”la Caixa” Foundation.