CSIRO Hiring for Research Software Engineer Job at Melbourne Full Time

The Opportunity

• Endless opportunities to grow & develop your career
• Flexible work arrangements! Mix of home and office
• Join CSIRO – Australia’s premier research organisation

As the successful candidate, you will work on projects within teams of; researchers, scientists, and fellow technical experts, helping to mature their software engineering practice.

Specific projects depend on researcher demand being matched to available expertise. A variety of specialist skills are sought, and it is expected that as the successful candidate that you will cover a subset of these desired skills.

Your duties will include:

• Under the guidance of senior team members, the main duties will include contributing to SCS activities with a focus on two or more of the following:
  • Software engineering support
  • Development or enhancement of Web tools
  • High performance computing
  • Workflow orchestration
  • Numerical and data modelling
  • Data manipulation, analysis and interpretation (including geospatial data)
  • Software choice and provision
  • Resource and service orchestration.
• Liaise with clients to determine their needs and take personal responsibility for their satisfaction, correct problems promptly and in a constructive manner.
• Under general direction, undertake a wide variety of tasks or tasks that have a high degree of technical difficulty, documenting procedures, and training clients in systems and processes.
• Participate in the planning of projects and accept responsibility for carrying out major parts of the project, including data analysis, and typically make significant contributions to the interpretation and communication of results.

Location: Clayton VIC, Eveleigh NSW, Canberra ACT, Adelaide SA, Brisbane QLD, Perth WA

Salary: AU$87,068_ to AU$98,504 pa (pro-rata for part-time) + up to 15.4% superannuation

Tenure: Specified term of 3 years

Reference: 79084

To be considered you will need:

Essential

Under CSIRO policy only those who meet all essential criteria can be appointed.

• Experience in developing and supporting software for two or more of the following
  • Data Analytics and Visualisation – complex scientific visualisations, data analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence
  • Workflows and Pipelines – dependency-based methods, streaming (data ingest, robust pipelines), workflow tools and frameworks, and batch job management on our HPC clusters
  • High Performance Scientific Applications – algorithm and program optimisation, parallelisation, power optimisation for large scale computations and pipeline optimisations
  • Simulation and Modelling – Computational Fluid Dynamics, Finite Element Analysis and Complex Systems
  • Research Software Engineering – user requirements gathering, agile software development, software, and system testing and validation
  • Domain Specific Algorithms and Software – astronomy, bioinformatics, remote sensing, image and signal processing
  • Quantum Computing – quantum algorithms representative for computational science, quantum communication, and error correction; running on real quantum computers or using simulators on local computers
  • Science Data Management – provenance, lifecycle management, and data formats and interchange
  • Solution Design – cloud and HPC based solutions, storage, governance frameworks, and reporting
  • Specialised web development for science and data analytics
• Demonstrated experience in more than one of the programming languages, frameworks, and libraries used by CSIRO’s scientific computing community. Languages include Python, R, JavaScript, MATLAB, Fortran, C, and C++. Frameworks and libraries used include those for numerical modelling and analytics, parallelism, geospatial, and visualisation.

Desirable

• Expertise in the use and design of data centric workflows. This may include including scripting, use of HPC batch systems, cloud/container computing, web-based interfaces/portals and visualisation, use/provision of web services, databases, ‘big data’ technologies, and workflow tools. Web presentation of data (including geospatial data) is of particular interest, coupled with good data preparation and management.
• Demonstrated experience in a science domain relevant to CSIRO.
• Demonstrated experience in applying modern software engineering practices and tools, such as version control systems, build systems, testing, Agile development, profiling/debugging tools, and technical documentation.
• Demonstrated experience with containerisation, including container design/definition, container orchestration, container networking and security, and Continuous Integration and Delivery workflow.

For full details about this role please review the Position Description

Eligibility

To be eligible to work in CSIRO you must be an Australian Citizen, Permanent Resident or either hold, or be able to obtain, a valid working visa.

The successful applicant will be required to obtain and provide a National Police Check or equivalent. Additional integrity checks may be required for specific roles which require security clearance for working with children, Australian Government cybersecurity requirements or other identified security roles.

Flexible Working Arrangements

We work flexibly at CSIRO, offering a range of options for how, when and where you work.

Diversity and Inclusion

We are working hard to recruit people representing the diversity across our society, and ensure that all our people feel supported to do their best work and feel empowered to let their ideas flourish.

About CSIRO

At CSIRO Australia’s national science agency, we solve the greatest challenges through innovative science and technology. We put the safety and wellbeing of our people above all else and earn trust everywhere because we only deal in facts. We collaborate widely and generously and deliver solutions with real impact.

Join us and start creating tomorrow today!

How to Apply

Please apply on-line and provide a cover letter and CV that best demonstrate your motivation and ability to meet the requirements of this role.

Applications Close

5th December 2021, 11:00pm AEST/AEDT