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Research Engineer - Agent Memory

San Francisco Bay Area💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-21 → 2026-09-29

Core

Building the memory layer for AI agents, enabling long-term memory, context retention, and learning from interactions to distinguish chatbots from persistent agents.

Role type

Senior IC research engineer (AI memory systems)

Builds

Production-ready memory features including extraction, updates, consolidation, forgetting, and dreaming capabilities for AI agents.

Domain

Artificial Intelligence / Large Language Models / Retrieval Augmented Generation

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

RAG and information retrieval, LLM fine-tuning, experimental design, Python, PyTorch, vLLM, evaluation framework design, data pipeline orchestration

Preferred skills

Publications at NeurIPS/ICML/ACL, privacy-preserving ML, memory/retrieval literature expertise, vector-DB internals, deduplication, contradiction detection

Technologies

PyTorch, vLLM, Python

Responsibilities

Train models for memory extraction, updates, consolidation, and conflict resolution; prototype and benchmark paper ideas for production; build automated evaluation metrics and online A/B tests; validate hypotheses through field trials; design APIs and data contracts for safe rollouts.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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