Acknowledgement of Country

• 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

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

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.

• 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.

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

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.

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.