Forward-Deployed AI Engineer, Justice and Community Safety
About Maincode
Maincode makes Matilda, an Australian-made AI stack we own end to end, from tin to token. We own and operate our own infrastructure here in Australia, we train and maintain our own frontier models, and we run multiple surfaces on top of them, including chat, coding and API. Everything we ship is built on capability we control ourselves.
We are hiring someone who cares about that. You should be passionate about Australian-made AI, a builder first, and keen to work directly with customers to help them move forward on the Matilda stack.
The Role
You will be Maincode's senior technical presence with customers in Melbourne, including departments across the Justice and Community Safety (JACS) portfolio.
This is a forward-deployed engineering role. You will embed with customer teams, get to grips with their hardest data problems, and design, adapt and deploy the Matilda stack to solve them. You will be the technical face of Maincode in the Justice and Emergency Services (J&ES) community: credible in a room of senior technical staff, able to prototype in days, and rigorous enough to ship working systems into classified environments.
What You Will Do
- Embed with Victorian J&ES customers to find where Matilda can deliver real mission outcomes, and turn loosely defined requirements into concrete technical plans.
- Design, fine-tune, evaluate and deploy systems on the Matilda stack against customer data, including in on-premises, air-gapped and classified environments.
- Own delivery end to end, from data pipelines and fine-tuning through retrieval-augmented generation, evaluation, MLOps and hardening to relevant Government security standards.
- Brief confidently at every level, from working engineers through to executives, and write architecture papers and evaluation reports that stand up to scrutiny.
- Bring what you learn in the field back to the team that trains the models, so customer experience directly shapes the next version of the s...