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Senior Scientific Software Engineer

IT Alliance AustraliaCanberra, Australian Capital Territory🇦🇺AustraliaPosted 3 Apr 2026

Quick Overview

Work Type
Hybrid
Schedule
Full Time
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

One of our Federal Government clients is looking for Senior Scientific Software Engineer in Canberra. We are looking for the following Skills/Experience:

  • Demonstrated experience modernising and maintaining (e.g. Python, C++ based) scientific or geospatial software, including refactoring legacy code while preserving numerical outputs.
  • Experience in running scientific workflows and parallel processing workloads on both NCI and AWS, and demonstrated capability in build and packaging processes across multiple platforms and environments.
  • Automated testing and reproducibility. Demonstrated delivery of automated unit/integration tests and reproducible builds, including CI workflows and clear test strategy for numerical code (tolerances, regression tests).
  • Experience packaging and releasing tools (versioning, semantic release, changelogs, artifact publishing) and maintaining stable, traceable releases.

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Skills

AWS
C++
Python

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