Principal Enablement Lead

Job No.: 697532

Location: Clayton campus

Employment Type: Full-time

Duration: 3 year fixed-term appointment

Remuneration: $191,131 pa HEW Level 10A (plus 17% employer superannuation), although a competitive remuneration package can be applied for an experienced candidate 

• Amplify your impact at a world top 50 University
• Join our inclusive, collaborative community
• Be surrounded by extraordinary ideas - and the people who discover them

The Opportunity

Drive the future of AI-driven research as the Principal Enablement Lead for Project MAVERIC, the University’s AI supercomputing platform.

Reporting directly to the Director Emerging Technologies and Program Director of  MAVERIC, this high-profile role operates with a significant degree of autonomy to bridge advanced infrastructure capability with the research community. Leading a dedicated team of up to five specialists, you will serve as the strategic engine behind researcher onboarding, experience design and customer success. You will build trusted relationships with faculties, institutes and key technology partners like NVIDIA, translating complex GPU-accelerated computing, AI/ML workloads and high-performance infrastructure into scalable, high-impact research services.

In this pivotal position, you will establish a systematic Voice of Customer capability to capture community feedback, monitor GPU utilization and directly influence platform investments, security governance and technical roadmaps. As a senior liaison, you will represent enablement perspectives across governance forums, collaborate with global vendors, and guide choices surrounding HPC technologies, storage architectures and data movement solutions.

To succeed, you will hold postgraduate qualifications in Science, IT, Business, or a related field, combined with extensive leadership experience in complex research, technology or high-performance computing environments. Equivalent combinations of senior management expertise and specialised technical experience will also be highly regarded.

About Monash University

At Monash, work feels different. There’s a sense of belonging, from contributing to something ground breaking – a place where great things happen.

We value difference and diversity, and welcome and celebrate everyone's contributions, lived experience and expertise. That’s why we champion an inclusive and respectful workplace culture where everyone is supported to succeed.

Some 20,000 staff work for Monash around the world. We have 95,000 students, four Australian campuses, and campuses in Malaysia and Indonesia. We also have a major presence in India and China, and a significant centre and research foundation in Italy.

In our short history, we have skyrocketed through global university rankings and established ourselves consistently among the world's best tertiary institutions. We rank in the world’s top-50 universities in rankings including the QS World University Rankings 2026.

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Monash supports flexible and hybrid working arrangements. We have a range of policies in place enabling staff to combine work and personal commitments. This includes supporting parents.

To Apply

For instructions on how to apply, please refer to 'How to apply for Monash Jobs'.

Diversity is one of our greatest strengths at Monash. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, and people of all genders, sexualities, and age groups.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible recruitment process at Monash. If you need any reasonable adjustments, please contact us at hr-recruitment@monash.edu in an email titled 'Reasonable Adjustments Request' for a confidential discussion.

Your employment is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of all pre-employment and/or background checks required for the role, as determined by the University.

Enquiries: Joseph Pineda, Director of Emerging Technologies & Program Director of MAVERIC (Acting), joseph.pineda@monash.edu 

Position Description: Principal Enablement Lead, Project MAVERIC

Applications Close: Thursday 17 September 2026, 11:55pm AEST