Coordinator Community Safety

Publicroles; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Superannuation

Job summary

Maincode seeks a Forward-Deployed AI Engineer in Melbourne to lead customer engagements within the Justice and Community Safety portfolio. You will embed with client teams, shape data-driven AI solutions on the Matilda stack, and deliver end-to-end deployments in secure environments.

The role requires NV1 or higher clearance, deep ML/ data science skills, and the ability to communicate with executives while writing rigorous architecture papers.

Qualifications

• Active AGSVA NV1 security clearance or higher.
• Experience deploying ML systems in secure environments.
• Hands-on data science and ML engineering with Python.
• Ability to work autonomously inside customer environments.
• Experience with secure government or defence data workflows.

Responsibilities

• Embed with Victorian J&ES customers to identify mission outcomes and convert requirements into technical plans.
• Design, fine-tune, evaluate and deploy Matilda stack in various environments, including on-premises and air-gapped.
• Own delivery end-to-end from data pipelines to deployment and security hardening to government standards.
• Brief technical staff and executives; write architecture papers and evaluation reports.
• Share field learnings with model trainers to influence future stack iterations.

Skills

Python

PyTorch

JAX

Hugging Face

Data science

ML engineering

Software engineering

Autonomy

Job description

Forward-Deployed AI Engineer, Justice and Community Safety

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.

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 stack.

What You Will Bring

• Must hold an active AGSVA NV1 (or higher) security clearance and be willing to undergo Victoria Police organisational suitability vetting.
• Deep hands‑on experience in data science and ML engineering, with strong Python, modern ML stacks such as PyTorch, JAX and the Hugging Face ecosystem, and solid software engineering fundamentals.
• Demonstrated experience deploying ML systems in secure government, defence or intelligence environments, including on‑premises and air‑gapped infrastructure.
• Working knowledge of the Victorian Protective Data Security Framework (VPDSF), the ISM, the Protective Security Policy Framework (PSPF), and data classification and handling requirements.
• Excellent judgement and discretion, and the ability to operate autonomously inside customer environments.
• The ability to explain complex ML concepts crisply, and to write exceptionally well.
• Prior experience within State Law Enforcement, Public Safety, or Federal Intelligence (e.g., VicPol, ASIO, ASD, or Defence S&T), ideally in a data science, technical, or analytic role.
• Hands‑on experience with large language models: fine‑tuning, evaluation, retrieval‑augmented generation, and their known failure modes.
• Familiarity with intelligence‑adjacent data workflows such as entity resolution, geospatial analysis, OSINT, graph analytics, or tradecraft tooling.
• Solutions architecture or technical pre‑sales experience in a commercial setting.

Details

• Location: Melbourne, VIC. Regular work from customer facilities and secure sites, with some work from Maincode offices.
• Type: Full‑time, permanent.
• Remuneration: Negotiable based on experience, plus super and equity.