What are the responsibilities and job description for the Research Engineer 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.
LLMs are one piece of a complete agentic system. To build human-like AI that can reason, plan, learn, and remember, we need to engineer the new computer. We believe that the key research advancements that unlock these capabilities will happen from fast-paced open research at the application layer that mixes and matches the best models.
At Letta, our research is focused on understanding the fundamental limitations of LLM-driven intelligence, and building the open model-agnostic application layer above LLMs. As a research engineer, you will work closely with a world-class research team behind MemGPT (PhDs from UC Berkeley's BAIR and Sky research labs) on agentic systems, memory, reasoning, and scaling test-time compute. You will productionize research developments in Letta's OSS framework and cloud platform.
Responsibilities :
- Developing Letta's core agentic loops, which encompasses tool execution, stream parsing, reasoning, and more.
- Evaluating and improving performance of Letta's agents framework with open models and new model types (e.g. reasoning models)
- Integrating LLM API providers into Letta's framework
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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.
