Research Engineer – Matilda

Maincode is mission-focused. That means we care about shipping Matilda, and we care about the people we do it with. Everything else is secondary.

Matilda is Australia's first publicly available conversational AI platform wholly built and run in Australia. It's a serious technical undertaking and we're building it with a small team that moves fast and takes the work seriously.

We're looking for smart, humble people who want to help build something that matters and aren't precious about how they contribute. You might end up deep in the research literature. You might end up learning how to build telemetry systems for production infrastructure at scale. Probably both, and other things we haven't thought of yet. The work will find you.

We don't care much about credentials or background. A lot of the best people we've worked with came from somewhere unexpected — hard PhDs in adjacent fields, unconventional paths, weird combinations of experience. What they had in common was that they were genuinely excellent, fast learners, and good people who showed up and got on with it.

If you want a detailed job spec, this probably isn't the right role. If you're the kind of person who reads that and feels relieved rather than concerned, let's talk.

This is a full time role based in Melbourne, working closely with our in person engineering and research team. At this time we are not able to offer visa sponsorship, so applicants must have existing and unrestricted work rights in Australia.