Business Development and Commercialisation Graduate Program (2025) (Feb 2025)

Acknowledgement of Country

CSIRO acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land, sea and waters, of the area that we live and work on across Australia. We acknowledge their continuing connection to their culture and pay our respects to their Elders past and present. View our vision towards reconciliation.

What our graduate program can offer you 

CSIRO is a preferred employer for early career researchers, and the Enterprise Services Graduate Program is a rare opportunity for non-research graduates to be part of the broader team solving impossible problems. As an Enterprise Services Graduate, you will be joining a team that prides itself on being an impact driven organisation.

As a graduate you will join other like-minded graduates on this experience together. You will be provided with support, mentoring, a structured 18-month learning and development program, and rotations within several different areas that align with your skillset and career aspirations. At the completion of this program, you will take what you have learnt to settle into one area of specialty to continue a great career with CSIRO.

What do we look for in our graduates?

A successful graduate for CSIRO will be a bright, ambitious, driven individual who is keen to thrive at Australia's national science agency. As part of their respective support stream, they will partner with some of the brightest and most successful researchers in Australia and beyond, to achieve cutting edge work that has huge impact for the world. Solving Australia's greatest challenges is impossible without graduates. 

Our Business Development and Commercialisation team
Our Growth function supports delivery of CSIRO’s strategy to deliver maximum impact for the nation and to sustain the long-term financial health of the organisation. It works across customer management, commercialisation and equity, global engagement, intellectual property, commercial law, and program design and management. The team helps identify suitable markets, linking world-class scientific developments with industry, and help take research from the lab bench to the market, creating real-world economic, environmental, and society-wide value.

As a graduate your work could involve experience in business development, intellectual property management, commercial contracting and much more.

Requirements and eligibility

To be eligible for our 2025 Graduate Program, you'll need to have:

• either Australian citizenship, New Zealand citizenship or Australian permanent residency (at the time of submitting this application)
• have completed your degree within the last 3 years (ie. 2022, 2023, 2024) or be completing your degree by January 2025
• be able to commence full-time employment by the required start date of February 2025.

Apply now - applications close 21 April 2024