Research Platform Engineering Fellow (Software Engineering) …, Brisbane City

Research Platform Engineering Fellow (Software Engineering)
- The University of Queensland
- Australia, QLD
- May 22, 2026 Full-time About The University of Queensland For more than a century, The University of Queensland (UQ) has created positive change for society by delivering knowledge leadership for a better world. UQ ranks among the world’s top universities, as measured by several...
- Full time (100%), fixed-term position through to December 2027
- Base salary will be in the range $83,698.91
- $111,431.10 + 17% super (Academic Level A) This is an exciting opportunity for a Research Platform Engineering Fellow to help develop and evolve sciget.org, a digital research platform that supports scientific analysis at scale across imaging, biology, and other research domains. Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team of research engineers, platform leads, and domain scientists, you will help shape the platform that researchers depend on for their day-to-day analysis work. As a core part of the role, you will stay close to the scientific use cases the platform serves, working with researchers to understand their workflows so that platform decisions are driven by real analysis needs. The work spans
- Containerised research environments that give scientists a reliable, reproducible foundation for their analyses
- Reproducible analysis workflows aligned with how scientists actually work
- Developer tooling and contribution workflows that support developers and community contributors in extending the platform
- Integration with national research cloud infrastructure
- Platform security, including container scanning, software supply chain hardening, and vulnerability management You will be required to develop deep expertise in research platform engineering, while building an emerging research profile through methods Apply on Kit Job: kitjobau.com/job/3rq22x