Researcher

aka (fka mem protocol); San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Mindset in San Francisco is seeking a curious researcher who turns ideas into code, experiments, prototypes, and usable products. You read papers, question setups, and build the missing systems that let complex ideas become real.

You will tackle core problems around agents acting for people and organizations—identity, delegation, permissions, memory, provenance, and auditability—to drive reliable behavior over time.

Responsibilities

• Study how agents act on behalf of people and organizations: identity, delegation, permissions, memory, provenance, and auditability.
• Work starts with unclear questions and ends with systems others can run; study inheritance of authority and persistence of permissions.

Job description

Mindset

You pick work that teaches you something. You’re the kind of researcher who reads the paper, questions the setup, builds the missing system, and shows the work. Original thinking matters to you, but it is not enough on its own. You turn ideas into code, experiments, prototypes, and products people can actually use.

What you'll do

You will work on the core problems that appear when agents need to act on behalf of people and organizations: identity, delegation, permissions, memory, provenance, and auditability. The work starts with unclear questions and ends with systems others can run. You might study how an agent should inherit authority, how permissions should persist across tools, how actions should be recorded and reviewed, or how memory and context should be structured so behavior stays reliable over time.