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The Opportunity

• Join CSIRO - Australia's National Science and Innovation Agency
• Supportive, rewarding, inclusive and truly flexible environment
• Collaborative, flexible, innovative workplace that values you and your career development

The role of Research Scientist/Engineer staff is to conduct innovative research leading to scientific achievements that are aligned with CSIRO’s strategies. The Research Scientist/Engineer may be engaged in scientific activity ranging from fundamental research to the investigation of specific industry or community problems. The Research Scientist/Engineer will have the opportunity to build and maintain networks, play a lead role in securing project funds, provide scientific leadership and pursue new ideas and approaches that create new concepts.

The Research Scientists will work closely with leading Research Scientists and Engineers within the Cybersecurity and Quantum Systems group. They carry out innovative, impactful research of strategic importance to CSIRO with the possibility of novel and important scientific outcomes. They present the findings in appropriate publications and at conferences.

As part of the Human-Centric Security team, this role will contribute to realising the Data61 focus on humans and machines. In particular, this role will contribute to multiple human-centred projects with a strong cybersecurity focus, with specific experience in UX research and design, usable security and privacy, and human-computer interaction. This role will grow the team’s capacity in the development of its core capabilities in usable security and privacy, and human-computer interaction. 

The key duties of the role are to solve various cybersecurity problems aligned with Data61’s research strategies in novel and practical ways, collaborate with colleagues and customers, and keep a health and safe work environments. The deliverables of this role are research driven by impacts, including high-quality scientific papers, technical reports, usable systems for customers or community.  It is ideal that the scientist has the research background and skills on data and system security, with high quality papers published on major cybersecurity conferences and journals, with the capability of proposing new ideas and prototype development.

Your duties will include:

• Contribute to projects and carry out research to develop collaborative (human and machine) intelligence to support human decision making in a number of different cybersecurity scenarios.
• Contribute to projects and carry out research on behavioural human factors to strengthen cybersecurity understanding, application and adoption.
• Contribute to projects and carry out research in human-in-the-loop/human-out-of-the-loop/AI-in-the-loop/AI-out-of-the-loop to develop robust AI techniques to identify the best fit in a number of different cybersecurity scenarios.
• Contribute to projects and carry out research to develop invisible security mechanisms to support humans and machines working together.
• Contribute to projects and carry out research in explainable AI with a humanistic focus to support the notion of making cybersecurity accessible to all Australians. 
• Contribute to projects and carry out research to develop a strong and usable cybersecurity gamification platform that incorporates collaborative intelligence. 
• Contribute to the designing of conceptual models, storyboards, and prototypes for research project deliverables.
• Contribute to conducting user interviews and usability testing.
• Contribute to analysing research data and identifying opportunities for improvement, necessitating strong skills and experience in quantitative analysis, statistical analysis and thematic analysis.
• Contribute to the writing and publication of high-quality articles acceptable to high-rank conferences (CHI, ASE, ACM CCS, WWW, IEEE S&P, NDSS) and high impact journals (TOCHI, TOSEM, AI).

Location: Melbourne, Australia. This role has a requirement to be based out of Melbourne.
Salary: AU$105,806 - AU$114,500 per annum - plus up to 15.4% superannuation
Tenure: Indefinite
Reference: 92521

To be considered you will need:

• A doctorate in a relevant discipline area, such as Computer Science, Data Sciences, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Communications or Software Engineering, and 3 years work experience as a postdoctoral fellow or equivalent.
• Demonstrated experience in conducting research activities and having the ability to undertake research in human-centric security.
• Proven ability to conduct high-quality research, development and implementation in AI and human-centric security with publications in top tier security conferences (CHI, ASE, ACM CCS, WWW, IEEE S&P, NDSS) and high impact journals (TOCHI, TOSEM, AI), or similar level conferences in other domains.
• Ability to work effectively as an integral member of a multi-disciplinary, regionally dispersed research team, and foster an environment in which there is a high level of cooperation within and between teams, as well as the motivation and discipline to carry out autonomous research.
• High level of written and oral communication skills with the ability to represent the research team effectively internally and externally, including the presentation of research outcomes at national and international conferences.
• Demonstrated professional and respectful behaviour and attitude in a collaborative environment.

For full details about this role please view 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. 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

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. 

CSIRO is committed to values-based leadership to inspire performance and unlock the potential of our people.

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

04th June 2023, 11:00pm AEST