Careers

ACENET’s mission is to support Atlantic Canadian researchers in academia, industry, government and non-profits leverage digital research infrastructure and expertise to accelerate discovery, innovation and productivity.

We were created through the grassroots organization of a handful of forward thinking researchers. That foundation remains a cornerstone of our culture today. We have grown on the principle that the client’s needs are first and foremost, and we pursue excellence in all endeavours.

We work for a diverse clientele doing every kind of research imaginable - developing lighter aerospace materials, analyzing Shakespeare works, engineering ship propellers, mining historical documents, creating green energy alternatives, informing public policy on nutrition, using AI to fight COVID, and many others. Areas as wide-ranging as nanotechnology, social science, advanced manufacturing, artificial intelligence, ocean science, arts and humanities, genomics, and health research increasingly rely on the tools, support and training provided by ACENET and the Digital Research Alliance of Canada (the Alliance). Training delivered by ACENET helps to develop and retain high technology skills in Atlantic Canada, grow our innovation economy and create socio-economic benefits in the region.

A virtual organization, our staff are located at institutions across Atlantic Canada. This operational structure demands an environment of trust, integrity and respect for our clients and for one another.

We are a small, well-educated, cohesive and highly supportive team comprised of individuals with unique and complementary skill sets, resulting in a collective skill set that runs deep. We are both flexible and innovative, often solving difficult challenges by working together to arrive at creative solutions. At our core is a continuous learning culture with opportunities for self-learning and professional development, a strong client service mentality, a can-do attitude and a passion for solving problems and helping clients bring R&D to fruition. Please read our team culture statement below. 

Team Culture Statement

ACENET plays a key role in Canada’s digital research infrastructure (DRI) space, and the work we do to support researchers is both meaningful and complex. Research and DRI work is intricate and interconnected, so our ability to collaborate with empathy and respect really matters. None of this works if we don’t treat each other well.
 
We care about helping researchers to innovate faster and discover more. To do that well, we work openly, we share what we know, and we don’t let hierarchy get in the way of good ideas. Everyone contributes, everyone teaches, and everyone learns.
 
Our team is full of people with deep expertise, in topics ranging from molecular dynamics and  machine learning to humanities and supercomputer hardware components. That means we trust each other to know our stuff, to take ownership, and to lead within our own areas. 
 
Autonomy here isn’t something you earn, it’s something we assume. Although we have a great deal of autonomy, we are also a team. We can and do call upon each other when projects, tasks, or challenges are too tricky or complex to solve alone, or when we just want a sounding board.
 
And because the work we do can be mentally taxing and the ecosystem complex, we take work-life balance seriously. We prefer the classic workday, and we want people to actually have lives outside of Slack, helpdesk tickets, and compute cycles. Rested brains think better, are kinder, and do better work. 
 
This is a place where we support one another, take pride in our impact, and try hard to be good human beings to work with.
 

We offer our staff the ability to take initiative, and to create and execute their own projects in support of our mission. Through ACENET’s partnership in the Alliance Federation, there are opportunities to work with a highly skilled, varied group of peers across the country.

Our employment benefits include include generous annual vacation, personal days, sick leave, tuition support, health benefits and pension plans through the universities which host us.

If you are interested in becoming part of our team, please see our current career postings below, or contact careers@ace-net.ca.

Current Career Opportunities

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