CSIC is Spain's primary government research performing organization, operating 124 centers across physics, chemistry, biology, materials science, and environmental studies. The tech stack—Python, R, TensorFlow, Keras, Docker, Nextflow—reflects a computational-heavy research operation focused on machine learning and containerized workflows, with active projects spanning catalytic chemistry, metabolic engineering, hydrological modeling, and microbial characterization. Hiring remains heavily skewed toward research roles (71% of active openings), with junior researchers and senior staff balancing a pipeline that's decelerating.
Tech Stack 12 technologies
What CSIC Is Building
◆Challenges
- Reducing project costs
- Ensuring on-time delivery
- Budget adherence
- Processing massive spatial transcriptomics data
- Biomanufacturing efficiency improvement
- Improving ecological flow management
- Managing large-sample hydrology datasets
- Seeking funding for spin-off
▲Active Projects
- Momentum
- Catalytic elimination of persistent pollutants using functionalized zeolites (halzeocat-cm)
- Open source antibiotics project
- Mur ligase inhibitor discovery
- Bio-based production methods
- Metabolic pathway design
- Environmental flows decision support system
- Camels-ib hydrological database
- Deep learning rainfall-runoff models
- Unknown microbial biosphere (umb) project
Hiring Activity
15 roles · 3 in 30d
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