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 metadata and audio processing, data science, academic research, and software development. We're solving challenging problems in the music industry, so you'll need a research mindset and strong domain knowledge.

You'll also help turn research ideas into production-ready code with solid software engineering practices. This also 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

• Expertise in designing, developing, and deploying industrial machine learning projects involving noisy and heterogeneous real-world data
• Expertise in leading or contributing to industrial software projects written in Python with a focus on software engineering best practices
• Basic backend engineering experience: databases (SQL and NoSQL), HTTP APIs, web services…
• Basic DevOps experience using docker to package and deploy applications in cloud environments like AWS

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.