AI Research Resident

The role

Residents will lead research to advance Maincode's work on capable, useful, and trustworthy AI systems. You will design and execute experiments and produce research outputs for publications or deployment in Matilda and future systems.

What you will do

• Lead research that advances Maincode's work on capable, useful, and trustworthy AI systems.
• Design and execute experiments.
• Develop new research directions.
• Collaborate closely with researchers and engineers.
• Produce research outputs suitable for top-tier conferences, journals, technical reports, open-source releases, or deployment in Matilda and future Maincode systems.

Required qualifications

• Late-stage PhD student, recent PhD graduate, or exceptional early-career researcher.
• Strong research taste and the ability to identify important problems before they are obvious.
• Experience publishing, preprinting, or producing high-quality research in AI, machine learning, or adjacent technical fields.
• Ability to define and execute independent research under uncertainty.
• Interest in building AI systems that can reason, act, and operate reliably in complex real-world environments.

Benefits

• Dedicated access to Maincode's GPU compute and research infrastructure.
• Close collaboration with a small, high-calibre team across AI research, systems engineering, product engineering, and design.
• Support for top-tier conference and journal submissions.
• Opportunity for strong research to contribute to Matilda and future Maincode systems.
• A research environment focused on deep work, technical seriousness, and real-world impact.

About the company

Maincode is an Australian AI research company building Matilda, an assistant that understands complex work, reasons over context, and takes meaningful action safely.