Do you want to develop your career and be the best you can be? The CSIR focuses its research efforts in diverse arenas, which means that scientists, researchers and engineers have a range of multidisciplinary fields to explore. Computer scientists, for example, could find their skills applied to research efforts in anything from designing aircraft; to collecting spatial data used in town planning; to developing algorithms for controlling the behaviour of robots.
Operations researcher
Water researcher Cyber security specialist
At the CSIR, career paths are seldom linear. As scientists are exposed to so many different opportunities, many choose to grow in a whole new area of interest they had not considered before. Bio-engineer
Polymer chemist
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