# Member of Technical Staff: Research at Zep AI

- Company: Zep AI (YC W24)
- What the company does: The unified context layer for enterprise data. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.getzep.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US)
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $180K to $250K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-18
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/zep-ai/jobs/8YxqiAO-member-of-technical-staff-research
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/zep-ai-member-of-technical-staff-research/

## About the role

What our customers' agents can reason about depends on the memory we retrieve and the memory we write. You own that loop. You build agents that improve retrieval. You finetune the models that extract memory, and the models that power those agents. You run the experiments and ship the result as production code. We're hiring an engineer who builds agents and trains the models they run on.

## What they're looking for

- You have shipped production ranking, retrieval, or query understanding
- You've built classical ML into a real product — logistic regression, SVMs, GBTs, single-layer perceptrons
- You've shipped finetuned models to production. You know transformer architectures and training workflows, and you work in PyTorch
- You have shipped a non-trivial agentic system to production. Not a prototype, not a thin wrapper over a chat-completion API
- You have a research methodology: dataset creation and curation, experiment design, and evaluation. You can frame an open problem and design an experiment that answers it
- You have built evaluation for retrieval, generation, or agent tasks: gold sets, offline metrics, online tests

Tags: Engineering