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Join Team CSIRO

Many of CSIRO's innovations were once considered impossible.

Fast WiFi, Aerogard insect repellent and the plastic Australian banknote, to name a few.

Until someone, just like you, joined us and took on the challenge.

We’re recruiting the next generation of inventors, innovators and change makers.

Join Australia’s national science agency and be part of a collaborative team working to solve the greatest challenges.

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Focusing on the issues that matter most

We’re solving Australia's greatest challenges through innovative science and technology – it's what we've been doing for the past 100 years.

We manage national state-of the-art research facilities and scientific infrastructure on behalf of all Australians.

We're building stronger relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples through scientific knowledge sharing, education, employment opportunities and mutually beneficial partnership.

Being part of Australia's national science agency is a rare opportunity for researchers and professionals to collaborate across disciplines, sectors and systems to solve impossible problems.

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Impossible without diversity

Solving Australia's greatest challenges takes a diversity of minds and lived experiences. We know diverse teams are more effective and deliver more innovative outcomes for science.

As Australia’s national science agency, we are committed to developing and supporting a diverse workforce in its broadest sense.

We’re striving for diversity, inclusion, belonging and innovation every day.

See what is possible for your career when you can bring your whole self to work.

Genuine flexible work environment

At CSIRO we put people first. We value you as an individual and as somebody who has commitments beyond work. 

We offer genuine hybrid and flexible working with national online collaboration with colleagues.Meeting room with Indigenous graduates listening to a speaker. Person in foreground wears a CSIRO tshirt that says 'Australia's first scientists'.

There are no caps on the number of days you can request to work from home.

You will be able to take advantage of initiatives that create genuine workplace flexibility so you can achieve big things while still enjoying a balanced life.

Collaborate with talented people

You will get to work with some of the most talented minds in their fields, not just in Australia, but in the world.

We spark off each other, learn from each other, trust each other and collaborate closely to achieve more than we could individually.

We have facilities across Australia and you will have opportunities to work in a range of locations depending on your specialty.

We offer career and leadership development opportunities and access to tools, support and resources to bring your work to life.

There are plenty of opportunities to make your mark and build long lasting, valuable networks within CSIRO and with leaders and experts globally.

Join Team CSIRO

Many of CSIRO's innovations were once considered impossible.

Fast WiFi, Aerogard insect repellent and the plastic Australian banknote, to name a few.

Until someone, just like you, joined us and took on the challenge.

We’re recruiting the next generation of inventors, innovators and change makers.

Join Australia’s national science agency and be part of a collaborative team working to solve the greatest challenges.

[Image appears of two females sitting on the banks of a river and enjoying the sunset and the camera zooms in on them, and text appears: Impossible Without CSIRO]

Narrator: Ah beautiful! But did you know that this would be impossible without CSIRO? Mosquito free sunsets;

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Also super-fast Wi-Fi:

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Protecting these little waddlers;

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Predicting bushfires;

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Flexible solar panels;

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Restoring our reefs;

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3D printed medical parts;

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Can you believe all of this was impossible without people just like you?

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So join us and make the impossible happen.

[Image shows the Earth morphing into the CSIRO logo and text appears: Join Team CSIRO, CSIRO.AU]

Focusing on the issues that matter most

We’re solving Australia's greatest challenges through innovative science and technology – it's what we've been doing for the past 100 years.

We manage national state-of the-art research facilities and scientific infrastructure on behalf of all Australians.

We're building stronger relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples through scientific knowledge sharing, education, employment opportunities and mutually beneficial partnership.

Being part of Australia's national science agency is a rare opportunity for researchers and professionals to collaborate across disciplines, sectors and systems to solve impossible problems.

[Image appears of a view of a red desert, and then images flash through to show various views of satellite dishes, and views of Ivy looking up at a screen showing the universe, and text appears: Ivy Wong]

Dr Ivy Wong: Working with the Next Generation telescopes where we cannot keep the raw data, the impossible question now I work with is, whether we can explore and discover all there is to explore from the universe before we chuck out the data.

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Mibu Fischer: Climate change impacts indigenous communities mostly first before others.

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Because we have such strong connections to our country what does that mean for our overall wellbeing?

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Ethan Towns: A couple of degrees extra heat the dung beetles leave.

[Images move through to show various dung beetles crawling along a hand, a dung beetle in a petri dish, Ethan Towns walking towards and entering a greenhouse of cotton, and then looking at a boll]

So, we’re trying to work out ways that bring dung beetles back and figure out why they haven’t returned.

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What else isn’t working out?

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Dr Hashini Senaratne: Applying artificial intelligence in a way that the users fast is one of the great challenges that we’re trying to solve.

[Images move through to show Michael Grose looking at a digital map, ice floes, lightning flashing, melting ice, Michael looking at maps, Michael talking with a colleague, and looking out over a harbour, and text appears: Michael Grose]

Michael Grose: One of the challenges we face is to use what we do know about the global warming that we’ve seen, what will happen, what is likely to happen, what could happen, to then make better plans for the future.

[Images flash through of Hashini, Mibu, Ethan, Ivy, and Michael one after the other]

[Music plays and the image changes to show the CSIRO logo, and text appears: CSIRO, Australia’s National Science Agency]

Impossible without diversity

Solving Australia's greatest challenges takes a diversity of minds and lived experiences. We know diverse teams are more effective and deliver more innovative outcomes for science.

As Australia’s national science agency, we are committed to developing and supporting a diverse workforce in its broadest sense.

We’re striving for diversity, inclusion, belonging and innovation every day.

See what is possible for your career when you can bring your whole self to work.

Genuine flexible work environment

At CSIRO we put people first. We value you as an individual and as somebody who has commitments beyond work. 

We offer genuine hybrid and flexible working with national online collaboration with colleagues.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are Australia’s first scientists.

There are no caps on the number of days you can request to work from home.

You will be able to take advantage of initiatives that create genuine workplace flexibility so you can achieve big things while still enjoying a balanced life.

Collaborate with talented people

You will get to work with some of the most talented minds in their fields, not just in Australia, but in the world.

We spark off each other, learn from each other, trust each other and collaborate closely to achieve more than we could individually.

We have facilities across Australia and you will have opportunities to work in a range of locations depending on your specialty.

We offer career and leadership development opportunities and access to tools, support and resources to bring your work to life.

There are plenty of opportunities to make your mark and build long lasting, valuable networks within CSIRO and with leaders and experts globally.