Position title: Senior Research Scientist in Computational Biology

Employer: CSIRO

Closing date: 21st September 2021

Brief position description: We are seeking a motivated Senior Research Scientist – Computational Biology to join the Traits Program within CSIRO Agriculture and Food. The research this program is undertaking is increasingly involving complex machine learning and computational approaches to address biological problems at scale and deliver outcomes with industry impact.

As the successful candidate, you will contribute to this evolving digital transformation through engagement across a variety of project areas including host-microbe interactions and protein engineering. Using your skills and expertise in computational biology and fostering collaborations with internal and external stakeholders, you will address novel bioinformatic challenges and complex or ill-defined biological questions, and develop new research areas facilitated by data analytics, modelling and machine learning tools.

This role is offered on a full-time or part-time (minimum 0.8 FTE) basis.

Location: Canberra (Black Mountain) ACT
Salary: AU$115k – AU$135k (pro-rata for part-time) plus up to 15.4% superannuation
Tenure: Indefinite
Reference: 76770

For full details about the role, including a link to the position description, please view the advert on CSIRO's website.

Job website: http://jobs.csiro.au/job/Canberra%2C-ACT-Senior-Research-Scientist-in-Computational-Biology/786771200/

Contact name: Melania Figueroa

Contact email: melania.figueroa@csiro.au