Talent Engineer

Maincode; Mackay Regional; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Maincode is an AI research and engineering company. This role oversees the technical screen for engineering candidates and builds screening tooling and dashboards. You will also design systems that turn hundreds of applications into a few strong hires.

We value technical fluency, precise language, and genuine curiosity about people. You will work closely with both talent and engineering teams to raise screening standards and automate workflows.

Qualifications

• Strong technical fluency and problem-solving skills.
• Precise and clear language, especially in written form.
• Genuine curiosity about people and their motivations.
• Ability to hand-code simple tools to prototype screening workflows.

Responsibilities

• Screen engineering candidates and produce reads for the team.
• Design and build talent systems and tooling.
• Collaborate daily with talent and engineering teams.
• Calibrate with engineers running later interview rounds.

Skills

technical fluency

precision with language

curiosity about people

hand-coding

Education

Computer science degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Job Description

About Maincode

Maincode is an AI research and engineering company. We build Matilda, Australia's large language model, trained, served and deployed here in Melbourne. We run our own GPUs in local data centres and we build everything above them: the racks, the training and serving systems, and the products that run on them.

About the Role

The hardest problem at Maincode is not the tech. It is finding the small number of people who can build a frontier AI company. We are a small team with a high bar, and we treat this as an engineering problem.

Your job is the technical screen. You will run the vetting stage for engineering candidates: conversations built on technical fundamentals, testing what each candidate claims to know. You will also build the systems the pipeline runs on: screening tooling, dashboards, and the automation that turns hundreds of applications a week into a small number of good decisions.

You do not need recruiting experience. You need technical fluency, precision with language, and genuine curiosity about people.

What You'll Do

• Screen engineering candidates and produce the reads the team hires from; automated and built into systems you design.
• Design and build talent systems and tooling.
• Work day to day with our talent and engineering teams.
• Calibrate with the engineers who run the later rounds.

You Might Be a Fit If

• You studied computer science or have equivalent experience. You can judge an answer about fundamentals.
• You are interested in both people and tech.
• You can code (by hand) well enough to build real tools, but you do not want production engineering to be your job.
• You are warm and you are exact.