What are the responsibilities and job description for the Founding Research Scientist position at Letta?
Our background
Letta is a company founded around the MemGPT project (13k GitHub stars). The founding team comes from the same research lab and PhD advisors at Berkeley that produced Spark (→ Databricks) and Ray (→ Anyscale). We have deep expertise in both AI and systems, are currently hiring a founding team of exceptional engineers to join us in building the next generation of LLM agent technology.
You can read more about Letta on TechCrunch and our blog.
Your role
Our goal as a company is to empower developers to build state-of-the-art LLM agents to power their own applications. To achieve this, we need to build and maintain a strong lead in our underlying agent technology. As a Research Scientist , your primary responsibility will be to design and execute an R&D strategy to ensure that the company's core LLM agent technology remains state-of-the-art. Simply put, your mission is to push the limits of what is possible with LLMs.
Responsibilities :
- R&D of the core agent framework, including context management techniques used to prompt the LLMs within the agent framework
Prototyping new context management and memory systems (e.g. better state→prompt compilers, more complex memory systems, multi-threading of multiple LLM processes, improved planning for multi-step reasoning, etc.)
Technical reports and blog posts : As our founding research scientist, you will also have significant agency in writing and publishing technical blog posts and whitepapers, which will be an important driver of our marketing and recruiting efforts.
Compute resources : You will be provided with significant resources to accomplish your work, including access to the latest GPUs for training / finetuning via both spot and reserved instances, and a dedicated budget for model serving and API credits across all the frontier model providers.
Our hiring process
We are hiring a small, tight-knit team of exceptionally talented founding engineers. Every hire matters, so we take the hiring process very seriously.
