• Lead the AI Residency Program end-to-end, setting its direction and ensuring high-impact outcomes
• Source, recruit, and select outstanding residents, managing the pipeline from outreach to offer
• Shape and approve research projects, balancing novelty with strategic alignment
• Guide and mentor residents through their six-month program, helping them produce impactful, publishable work
• Promote Maincode’s research externally, representing us at conferences and industry events
• Build relationships with universities, industry labs, and the broader AI research community to grow the program’s reach and attract top talent
• Collaborate closely with Maincode’s core research team to ensure residency projects complement and extend our own agenda

• Deeply versed in AI research, with strong technical grounding and an intuitive sense for promising ideas and directions
• Experienced in supervising researchers, such as PhD students or postdocs, and comfortable guiding multiple projects simultaneously
• Confident evaluating research quality and spotting high-potential candidates and projects
• Comfortable representing Maincode externally and building new connections across academia and industry
• Excited to move beyond academic constraints and make an impact where cutting-edge AI research is increasingly happening: in industry
• A confident communicator who thrives at the intersection of research, engineering, and external engagement
• Highly autonomous and comfortable taking ownership of a strategically important program

Why Maincode

We are a small, mission-driven team building some of the most advanced AI systems in Australia. We operate our own GPU clusters, run large-scale training, and work closely across research and engineering to push the frontier of what’s possible.

You’ll be surrounded by people who:

• Care deeply about model internals, not just outputs
• Build things that work at scale
• Take pride in learning, experimenting, and shipping
• Believe Australia must have independent, world-class AI systems