Research Engineer

Our mission is to build the most complete and reliable music consumption database for our clients—from record labels to music publishers and music industry associations.

As a Research Engineer, you'll support the R&D team with projects involving machine learning for music data and audio processing, doing data science, academic research, and software development. We're solving tough problems in the music industry, so you'll need a research mindset and know a lot about the field.

You'll also help turn research ideas into usable code, making sure it works well. This means packaging solutions in a way that makes them easy to use and deploying them on our servers or AWS for everyone to use.

Requirements

• Experience in designing, developing, and deploying industrial machine learning projects involving noisy and heterogeneous real-world data
• Knowledge of modern LLM technologies is a plus
• Expertise in leading or contributing to industrial software projects with a focus on software engineering best practices
• Experience working with cloud environments like AWS
• Knowledge of backend engineering fundamentals: databases (SQL and non-SQL), HTTP APIs, web services…
• Experience using docker to package and deploy applications

Expectations

• Within 30 days: Get familiar with all technologies, being able to make small yet precise contributions.
• Within 60 days: Progress towards assuming responsibility for specific developments and minor components of ongoing projects.
• Within 90 days: Become an active contributor within the team, capable of leading initiatives and taking ownership of ideas and their implementations.

Benefits

You Can Enjoy

• Flexible working hours and location
• Unlimited time off because we believe that you know best when you need to rest.
• We’ll provide you with all equipment needed for you to be comfortable
• Flat hierarchy
• You can make the role your own and run your own development
• Online language classes to improve your Spanish, Catalan or English
• Online and onsite courses and music industry workshops run by inhouse experts
• Barcelona HQ office available to you, kitted out with a rehearsal room https://www.bmat.com/bmat-house/

Who the FAQ are BMAT

BMAT started in 2005 when a group of engineers with a passion for music decided to spin-off from an audio research lab in Barcelona. We’re now over 200 people, spread across Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Lima, Rio de Janeiro, London, Paris, Nairobi, Oslo, Tel-Aviv, Singapore, Tokyo, Manila, Bangkok and Lagos.

We’re a team of pretty decent people who enjoy working with each other. We’re open-minded and well-traveled, coming from all parts of the world. We’ve got rappers, producers, cello players, DJs, and songwriters. The passion for music, the excitement for innovative technology and Barcelona as a backdrop has proven to make a good combination.

Join us from wherever you are on our mission to help make music live forever.

We say there’s a BMAT touch. We believe it has to do with being passionate, obsessive, nice, generous, honest, self-motivated, entrepreneurial, intrepid, crazy, extraordinary, creative, agile, human, friendly, smart, witty, talented, naive, optimistic, surprising, sensual, and nerdy, but not very hipster (unfortunately). Our way of being is always sprinkled with transparency, perseverance, flexibility, open-mindedness and trustworthiness.

Diverse perspectives drive innovation, and innovation is kind of our thing. Our open-minded and flexible culture organically fosters this diversity. We've learnt that we thrive on learning from each other, so we don't just welcome but actively hire a range of open-minded people from all walks of life. Our team is made up of people with different backgrounds, perspectives, orientations, abilities, musical tastes, dress sense and time-zones - but we all have one common goal: Making the music world a better place. With equal opportunities for everyone, BMAT is a pretty nice place to work.