Job Description

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Role highlights

• 3-year funded role with time for deep, meaningful design work
• Help solve Australia's biggest energy transition challenges
• Work alongside world-class researchers, engineers and innovators

About CSIRO

As Australia's national science agency, CSIRO is solving the greatest challenges through innovative science and technology. Many of our iconic innovations were once considered impossible until someone, just like you, joined us and took on the challenge.

Visit CSIRO.au for more information.

About NEAC

The National Energy Analysis Centre (NEAC) is a CSIRO-led, next-generation digital research infrastructure that will drive and inform Australia's energy transition to net zero. NEAC offers a systems-science approach, combining technical data with human behaviour insights to support faster, smarter energy innovation. It connects real people, physical test facilities, and sophisticated modelling to support researchers, innovators, and policymakers in shaping the energy landscape of the future.

NEAC includes:

• The Living Lab – a real-world data network of homes, businesses and energy users
• The Systems Science Toolbox – a comprehensive model suite for Australia's entire energy system
• Physical Infrastructure Integration – connections to CSIRO facilities for testing and simulation

The opportunity

As NEAC’s Product Designer, you will design the user experience for NEAC’s main audiences:

• enabling thousands of Living Lab households and businesses to participate in citizen science, elevating the understanding of everyday energy use; and
• providing government, research and commercial partners with premium tools and data to tackle the most difficult challenges in the energy transition.

You’ll work across the full creative arc: from ‘what if?’ concept explorations and promotional materials that make NEAC compelling to industry and government audiences, through interactive prototypes, to production-ready screen flows and UI specifications that Engineering can build with clarity.

You’ll own the visual language of NEAC’s interface design, its design system, and the graphic work that presents NEAC to the world — website, business development demonstrations, and the kind of visual storytelling that turns complex analytical science into something a first-time user can navigate with confidence.

Your collaborators will include researchers, product managers, engineers, and clients from government and private industry. At CSIRO, design is a form of science communication, and in this team your work is visible in every stakeholder conversation.

We’re looking for a designer whose instinct is fundamentally visual and human-centred — someone who thinks in composition and typography as well as user flows and journey maps. If your portfolio shows original visual craft alongside rigorous UX process, this role was written for you.

Your high-level duties will include:

• Design high-quality, production-ready user interfaces for NEAC’s digital products, ensuring visually compelling, accessible experiences that meet WCAG standards.
• Develop and maintain NEAC’s design system, including component libraries, style guides, interaction patterns and brand standards to ensure consistency across products and platforms.
• Create design artefacts across the full product lifecycle, from concept exploration and prototyping through to developer-ready specifications, websites and marketing collateral.
• Simplify complex analytical workflows, data visualisations and energy system information into intuitive experiences for both technical and non-technical users.
• Plan and conduct user research and usability testing with diverse stakeholders, translating insights into product improvements and design decisions.
• Collaborate with engineers, researchers and product stakeholders to deliver feasible, well-documented designs and support seamless implementation.

Role particulars

Location and office arrangements: Canberra, Hobart, Melbourne, Newcastle (or any major CSIRO Energy site considered)

Salary: AU$118k – AU$127k per annum (pro rata for part-time), plus 15.4% superannuation

Tenure & work schedule: Specified term of 3 years; Full time.

Reference: 103202

As the successful candidate, you will bring:

Essential

• A strong commercial portfolio demonstrating original visual craft and the ability to handle genuine complexity — interfaces that have been designed, not assembled.
• Mastery of Figma and a fluent modern design workflow from early concepts through to developer collaboration.
• Experience with information-dense, data-rich products, where translating complex analytical outputs into a clear, navigable interface is itself a creative problem.
• User research and usability testing capability, including working directly with stakeholders to translate their needs into design.
• Clear, confident communication of design decisions to engineers, researchers and clients across government and industry.

Familiarity with front-end development (React, HTML/CSS) is useful but secondary to design skill. We want someone who can hold their own on making a prototype, but can let that go and work as a team with engineering when it’s time for build.

For full details about this role, and other criteria, please review the

Not sure if you meet all the criteria?

While it is CSIRO policy that the successful candidate must meet all the essential criteria, there are many ways to demonstrate this. Don’t let the list discourage you. If you are unsure about applying, please reach out to the contact person in the Position Description.

Setting you up for success

We are committed to providing a recruitment process that is fair, equitable and accessible to everyone. We recognise that it may be helpful for us to adjust our process to make it equitable for your individual situation. Please email careers.online@csiro.au, quoting the reference number and let us know how we can support you.

Life at CSIRO and flexible work arrangements

We work flexibly at CSIRO, offering a range of options for how, when and where you work. We can discuss flexible work arrangements with you during the recruitment process. CSIRO also offers a range of leave entitlements, benefits and career development opportunities. To find out more, visit Careers at CSIRO

Inclusion and belonging

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. As an equal employment opportunity organisation, we are committed to creating diverse and inclusive teams where people feel they belong. We recognise true diversity encompasses all ages, abilities, cultures, faiths, levels of education, genders, sexualities, diversity of thought and much more. We focus on hiring people who share our values of People First, Further Together, Making it Real and Trusted.

CSIRO holds Gold Status for the Australian Workplace Equality Index for LGBTQIA+ inclusion, and a Science in Australia Gender Equity Bronze Award.

Eligibility

Applications for this position are open to Australian Citizens, New Zealand Citizens and Australian Permanent Residents. Appointment to this role is subject to provision of a national police check and may be subject to other security/medical/character requirements.

Child safety

CSIRO is committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people involved in our activities and programs. View our Child Safe Policy

How to apply

Please apply online and submit your application – please include a link in your CV to a portfolio

Applications close

Sunday 21st June 2026, 11:59pm AEST