There are a number of calls for postdoctoral positions from bodies such as ICREA and CONACYT, for which we can support your application or you can apply directly (not through BSC-CNS).
To review and apply to more professional opportunities at BSC, see our Job opportunities and Fellowships
BSC AI4Science Fellowships (AI4S)
The BSC AI4Science Fellowships (AI4S) is a talent attraction and retention program aimed at the convergence of HPC and AI, as well as the creation and consolidation of research lines in the departments of BSC-CNS (Computer Sciences, Life Sciences, Earth Sciences, and Computer Applications in Science and Engineering - CASE), leveraging the computational capabilities of MareNostrum 5. To achieve this, BSC expects to incorporate or retain 158 fellows who will be employed full-time for the duration of the 4-year program.
BSC International Summer HPC Internship
The BSC International Summer HPC Internship Programme, thanks to the Seveo Ochoa award, looks for outstanding Undergraduate Students in order to conduct a summer research experience at the BSC. The main goal of this programme is to encourage students, from any nationality, in the path of a scientific career and to introduce them to an HPC environment.
CONACYT
With the purpose of strengthening the knowledge of postdoctoral researchers, the “Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología” (Conacyt) and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center – Centro Nacional de Supercomputación have a collaboration agreement which allows Mexican postdoctoral researchers to do a placement of 12 months, with a possibility of a 1 year extension, to carry out researche at BSC-CNS in strategic research areas such as Software Engineering assisted by the Supercomputer, Computer Sciences, Life Sciences and Earth Sciences.
CONICET
With the purpose of strengthening the knowledge of postdoctoral researchers, the “Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas” (Conicet) and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center – Centro Nacional de Supercomputación have a collaboration agreement which allows Argentinian postdoctoral researchers to do a placement of 2 to 6 months, to carry out research at BSC-CNS in strategic research areas such as Software Engineering assisted by the Supercomputer, Computer Sciences, Life Sciences and Earth Sciences.
ICREA
ICREA, Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies, is a foundation supported by the Catalan Government and guided by a Board of Trustees. ICREA was created in response to the need to seek new hiring formulas that would make it possible to compete with other research systems on a similar footing by focusing on hiring only the most talented and extraordinary scientists and academics.
ICREA is an institution without walls. It works hand in hand with Catalan universities and research centres to integrate ICREA research professors in the Catalan research system.
ICREA offers permanent, tenured positions to researchers from all over the world to come and work in Catalonia. Over the years these positions have become a synonym of global academic excellence.
ICREA offers new research positions every year and continues to promote research in Catalonia. Cooperation, international openness and excellence are ICREA’s hallmarks.
ICREA employs more than 255 researchers in all fields of knowledge, from philosophers to astrophysicists, that perform their research in 50 different host institutions in Catalonia.
INPhINIT
INPhINIT INCOMING is a PhD scholarship programme aimed at incorporating young international researchers in the fields of technology, engineering, physics, mathematics, health and life sciences into the best Spanish research centres. Promoted by Obra Social ‘la Caixa’, INPhINIT aims to support the best scientific talent and encourage high quality and innovative research in Spain by recruiting outstanding international students, who are offered an attractive and competitive environment in which to carry out excellent research. Applicants must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Spain/Portugal for more than 12 months in the three years immediately preceding the closing date of the call.
INPhINIT RETAINING is a PhD scholarship programme aimed at incorporating young researchers in all areas of knowledge in Spanish research centres.
Candidates must have resided or have carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Spain for more than twelve months in the three years immediately prior to the closing date of the call.
Joan Oró grant to hire research staff in training (FI 2025)
Grants aimed at hiring predoctoral research staff and promoting their training and research activity. The FI programme aims to contribute to increasing the qualification and professionalisation of hired research staff and to strengthening the generation of frontier knowledge in research and its transfer. This call is funded by the Department of Research and Universities of the Generalitat de Catalunya and co-financed by the European Union through the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+).
Other career opportunities through the BSC network
Since BSC-CNS was founded in 2005, many people have contributed to the Centre’s growth through their skills and experience. BSC-CNS keeps in touch with all of them with the BSC Folks web platform, where you can find other career opportunities thanks to this network. Please find below the link with the current vacancies:
Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme
The new postdoctoral fellowships programme, Junior Leader “la Caixa”, is aimed at hiring excellent researchers—of any nationality—who wish to continue their research career in Spanish territory on any discipline. Sponsored by Obra Social ”la Caixa”, the objectives of this programme are to foster high-quality, innovative research in Spain and to support the best scientific talents by providing them with an attractive, competitive environment in which to conduct excellent research:
STARS
STARS programme aims at fostering the training of highly skilled post-doc in all fields of High Performance Computing and related applications. The programme will award 20 outstanding post-doctorate researchers of all nationalities with 24-month INCOMING fellowships, providing them with all necessary tools for developing their potentials, deepening their skills and knowledge in a stimulating, international and interdisciplinary environment, and offering them intersectorial short secondments (1-3 months) with private industry or non-academic research centres in order to boost their career perspectives as successful independent researchers.