AI Research Resident
remote
via Ashby
About this role
Maincode is an Australian AI research company building Matilda, an assistant that understands complex work, reasons over context, and takes meaningful action safely.
The AI Research Residency is a paid 3 to 6 month program for late-stage PhD students and exceptional early-career researchers who want to pursue high-impact AI research grounded in real systems.
Residents work closely with Maincode's research and engineering teams, with dedicated access to large-scale GPU compute and our in-house research infrastructure. You will explore open problems, run experiments at scale, and produce work that can contribute to top-tier publications, open research, infrastructure, or the systems behind Matilda.
This role is research-first, but applied.…
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