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The Opportunity
- Supportive, rewarding, inclusive and truly flexible environment.
- Innovative and collaborative workplace with fantastic flexibility
- Join CSIRO - Australia's premier research organisation
The Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre is a tier-1 high-performance computing facility accelerating scientific discoveries for Australia’s researchers. Located in Perth, Western Australia, Pawsey is currently serving scientists across the nation in domains such as radio astronomy, energy and resources, engineering, bioinformatics and health sciences. Pawsey supports Australia's commitment to the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) and Australian pathfinder projects (ASKAP and MWA). The Centre is managed through a long-standing and successful unincorporated joint venture of the CSIRO, Curtin University, Murdoch University and The University of Western Australia, and supported by funding from the Western Australian and Federal governments.
The Supercomputing Application Specialist will work within the Scientific Services Team. This position will work collaboratively with researchers to assist them in exploiting the vast opportunities enabled by the supercomputers operated in the Pawsey centre. A technical aptitude, strong interpersonal skills and a desire to learn are essential to support the researchers and to grow with technology. The Supercomputing Application Specialist will participate in maintaining existing as well as defining and building new supercomputing services.
Your duties will include:
- Provide specialist advice and software enhancement to research groups, drawing on extensive knowledge and experience to enable their utilisation at scale of significant supercomputing resources at Pawsey.
- Undertake collaborative projects with researchers, communities, software developers, vendors and other international centres.
- Identify suitable technologies, tools and algorithms relevant to user activities and encourage adoption to improve the productivity of the research community.
- Engage in and undertake strategic projects such as the radio astronomy SKA precursors (where requested).
- Develop and deliver specialist training to the Pawsey user community.
- Participate in evaluations of novel systems and technologies to inform the Pawsey infrastructure and services roadmap, and support transition to new systems.
Location: Australia Wide
Salary: AU$105,806 to AU$114,500 pa + 15.4% superannuation, 2 Positions available
Tenure: Indefinite
Reference: 95222
To be considered you will need:
Essential:
- Relevant post graduate qualification or significant progress towards postgraduate qualifications in a scientific or computer-science discipline; or combination of equivalent relevant work experience and/or education/training.
- Proven working knowledge of parallel programming models, such as OpenMP, MPI, HIP or CUDA.
- Demonstrated effective communication skills including the ability to articulate technical concepts to a diverse range of clients.
- The ability to work effectively in a team and carry out tasks autonomously.
Desirable:
- Demonstrated expertise in the support, development and optimisation of supercomputing applications including GPU-based and distributed architectures.
- Demonstrated ability and willingness to contribute novel ideas and approaches in support of scientific investigations.
For full details about this role please review the Position Description
Eligibility
Applications for this position are open to Australian/New Zealand Citizens, Australian Permanent Residents or you must either hold, or be able to obtain, a valid working visa for the duration of the specified term (Sponsorship can be considered). Appointment to this role is subject to provision of a national police check and may be subject to other security/medical/character requirements.
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
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