CSIRO Engineering Fellowship in Energy Efficient Radio Astronomy Instrumentation

• Do you have a PhD, or an engineering degree plus a Masters qualification, in Electronics Engineering, Signal Processing, or Computer Science?
• Want to conduct research in developing energy-efficient signal processing technologies that can be used on the lunar far-side?
• Join our team at CSIRO and help solve complex problems that make a real difference to our future. 

CSIRO Early Research Career (CERC) Postdoctoral Fellowships provide opportunities to scientists and engineers who have completed their doctorate and have less than three years of relevant postdoctoral work experience. These fellowships aim to develop the next generation of future leaders of the innovation system.

In this position you will research and develop energy-efficient signal processing technologies intended for applications in transient radio signal detectors that could be deployed in remote locations on Earth, or even on the lunar far-side.  Observing from extreme remote locations has many challenges, including, but not limited to, highly constrained power availability and limited communications bandwidth.  However, observing from remote locations also has its advantages, such as a lack of entrenched human-caused radio interference (especially in the case of the lunar far-side!).  In addition to working with senior research scientists and engineers, you will work closely with an astronomer postdoctoral fellow, who will be looking at developing the science cases for such remote radio observation instruments.  The instrument(s) which you will be helping to research and develop will likely be initially deployed to existing ATNF sites such as the Murriyang (Parkes) telescope site, ATCA (Australia Telescope Compact Array) site, and/or Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara, our Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, home of our ASKAP (Australia Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder) telescope.