Posted 3 weeks ago

Research Engineer - Agent Memory

Mem0 United States, San Francisco Bay Area, California
Onsite Full Time
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Job description

Role Summary:

Own the end-to-end lifecycle of memory features—from research to production. You’ll fine-tune models for extraction, updates, consolidation/forgetting, and conflict resolution; turn customer pain points into research hypotheses; implement and benchmark ideas from papers; and ship with Engineering to SOTA latency, reliability, and cost. You’ll also build evaluation at scale (offline metrics + online A/Bs) and close the loop with real-world feedback to continuously improve quality.

What You'll Do:

  • Fine-tune and train models for memory extraction, updates, consolidation/forgetting, and conflict resolution; iterate based on data and outcomes.
  • Read, reproduce, and implement research: quickly prototype paper ideas, benchmark against baselines, and productionize what wins.
  • Build evaluation at scale: automated relevance/accuracy/consistency metrics, gold sets, online A/B & interleaving, and clear dashboards.
  • Work closely with customers to uncover pain points, turn them into research hypotheses, and validate solutions through field trials.
  • Partner with Engineering to ship: design APIs and data contracts, plan safe rollouts, and maintain SOTA latency, reliability, and cost at scale.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Experience in RAG or information retrieval (retrieval, ranking, query understanding) for real products.
  • Model training/fine-tuning experience (LLMs/encoders) with a strong footing in experimental design and iteration.
  • Strong Python; deep experience with PyTorch and familiarity with vLLM and modern serving frameworks.
  • Built evaluation for complex vision-and-language tasks (gold sets, offline metrics, online tests).
  • Able to orchestrate data pipelines to run these models in production with low-latency SLAs (batch + streaming).
  • Clear, concise communication with stakeholders (engineering, product, GTM, and customers).

Nice to Have:

  • Publications at venues like CVPR, NeurIPS, ICML, ACL, etc.
  • Experience with privacy-preserving ML (redaction, differential privacy, data governance).
  • Deep familiarity with memory/retrieval literature or prior work on memory systems.
  • Expertise with embeddings, vector-DB internals, deduplication, and contradiction detection.

Our Culture

  • Office-first collaborationWe're an in-person team based in San Francisco. Hallway conversations, whiteboard sessions, and spontaneous collaboration help us move faster and build better products than remote meetings alone.
  • Velocity with craftsmanshipWe move quickly without sacrificing engineering excellence. Every system we build should be fast, reliable, scalable, and thoughtfully designed.
  • Extreme ownershipEveryone at Mem0 is a builder-owner. If you see a problem or opportunity, you're empowered to solve it. Titles matter less than impact.
  • High bar, high trustWe hire exceptional people, give them autonomy, and hold ourselves to a high engineering standard. We challenge ideas, review code thoughtfully, and celebrate wins together.
  • Data-driven, not ego-drivenThe best ideas win regardless of where they come from. We rely on data, customer feedback, and thoughtful experimentation to guide decisions.

Benefits & Perks

  • Health, dental & vision coverage - Comprehensive plans, fully covered for you (and subsidized for dependents)
  • Lunch & dinner, on us - Daily meals catered in-office, because good food fuels good work
  • Flexible PTO - Take the time you need to recharge, no rigid accrual counting
  • Equity in an early-stage company - Real ownership in what you're building, not just a paycheck
  • Regular team happy hours & events - Built into the culture, not an afterthought
  • Top-tier equipment - The laptop and setup you need to do your best work

Skills and functions

  • Python