• Transport yourself to a new career.
• Drive research innovation using your expertise in data science, transportation science and mathematics.
• Move on in - Join the exceptional people at CSIRO's Data61

The Position

The Advanced Data Analytics in Transport (ADAIT) team has an outstanding opportunity for a motivated, skilful research scientist to develop and implement machine learning models for transport data analytics. ADAIT is a research and development team within the Analytics program in CSIRO’s Data61.  Data61 is Australia’s leading data innovation group which partners with universities in Australia and corporate and government structures in order to create Australia’s data-driven future.

Since its inception in 2013 ADAIT won the ITS Australia National Award on Research in 2014 and 2015 consecutively. It won the prestigious NSW Premier’s Innovation Initiative in 2015 to deliver predictive modelling capabilities for congestion management in Sydney. It became a core partner in the TfNSW initiative for On-Demand Public Transport in 2017, with responsibilities on predictive data modelling. ADAIT has a long-term ongoing collaboration with NSW Roads and Maritime Services on a number of innovation projects. ADAIT has strong partnerships with the ITS industry in Australia. It explores with partners on realising the potentials of Data Science and AI in business innovations. Additional information on ADAIT can be found at: www.adait.io

ADAIT’s transport data analytics platform handles more than 800 million data transactions on daily basis. This includes real-time streaming data from traffic control systems, transport operation systems and data bundles on journey transactions. The platform hosts predictive analytics modules that derive actionable insights from data for intelligent congestion and journey management.

In this position you will draw on your professional expertise and research experience to develop and deploy machine learning models for the operations of multi-modal transport, intelligent mobility services and transport network management.  You will have opportunities to work with a team of research scientists, and as circumstances require, collaborate with external universities and research entities, to investigate research oriented problems.

In this role you will:

• Incorporate novel approaches to scientific investigations by adapting and/or developing original concepts and ideas for new, existing and further research.
• Propose innovations and publish research papers on work related subjects.
• Design, develop and maintain predictive machine learning models.
• Design, develop and maintain software and toolkits in raw data analytics, model calibration, model verification and visualisation.
• Integrate machine learning models into the ADAIT platform.

Location:      Eveleigh, NSW
Salary:          $97K - $105K plus up to 15.4% superannuation
Tenure:         Indefinite
Reference:   58327

To be successful you will need:

• A doctorate or equivalent research experience in a relevant discipline area, such as mathematics, computer science, machine learning, artificial intelligence or transportation science. 
• Strong written and oral communication skills including the ability to publish research results, prepare reports and present the results of scientific investigations at national and international conferences and stakeholder meetings.
• A solid track record in applying advanced mathematics in developing machine learning models, with results published in leading conferences and journals on related subjects.
• Highly proficient in advanced mathematics including but not limited to constraint programming, graph theory, stochastic process and Bayesian inference.
• Demonstrated record of applying mathematical solutions to machine learning problems, e.g. Bayesian Networks, Natural Language Processing, Image Processing, Recommendation Systems, and etc.
• Strong programming skills in either C++, Java, Python, R, or MATLAB.
• The ability to work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary, regionally dispersed research team, and carry out independent individual research, to achieve organisational goals.

Please view the full position description and selection criteria here:  Position description document

Who we are: The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)

At CSIRO, we do the extraordinary every day. We innovate for tomorrow and help improve today – for our customers, all Australians and the world. We imagine. We collaborate. We innovate.

About DATA61:  In today’s data-focused world, there’s no doubt that numbers count.  Data61 are the largest data innovation group in Australia, a connector that brings together technology innovators, businesses and universities to transform Australian industry and to help solve our greatest challenges. A CSIRO business, we are creating our data-driven future.

How to Apply:  Please provide enough information relevant to this position to enable the selection panel to determine your suitability, and upload one document containing your Cover LetterCV/resume and cover letter.  If your application proceeds to the next stage you may be asked to provide additional information.

Applications Close:  11:59pm AEST, Sunday 9 September 2018.