Hybrid AI Research Resident

at Maincode

• Job title: AI Research Resident
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Postgraduate Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Australia

About the role

• AI Research Resident exploring foundational AI systems from first principles at Maincode, an AI research lab building systems that move humans forward.

Responsibilities

• Propose, refine, and lead a research project that complements Maincode’s mission of building foundational AI systems from first principles
• Design and run experiments at scale, leveraging our compute infrastructure and state-of-the-art training pipelines
• Collaborate closely with Maincode researchers to share knowledge, exchange feedback, and develop new approaches to open problems in AI
• Analyse results rigorously, ensuring that findings are interpretable, reproducible, and impactful
• Share insights through internal discussions, research publications or presentations at AI conferences

Requirements

• A PhD candidate, postdoctoral researcher or faculty member with deep expertise in machine learning, artificial intelligence, or related fields
• Strong track record of publications or ongoing research projects in areas such as deep learning, optimisation, reinforcement learning, probabilistic modelling, or systems-level AI research
• Curious, independent, and self-directed, yet eager to collaborate and learn from others
• Comfortable working with large-scale experiments, distributed training environments, or novel algorithmic ideas
• Excited by ambitious, high-risk/high-reward research that challenges current paradigms.

Benefits

• Maincode provides the infrastructure and computational resources for you to explore your research ideas at scale.
• Collaborate with researchers within core team to investigate your proposed research project.
• Opportunity to pursue exploratory, high-impact research that is adjacent to Maincode’s core mission.