Senior AI Research Engineer — Agentic AI & Memory (Remote)

Matcha; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company paid health insurance

401K Plan with employer match

Self-Managed PTO

Parental leave

Job summary

Dropzone AI is seeking a Senior to Principal-level AI Research Engineer to lead design and development of agentic AI systems that translate cutting-edge research into scalable, real-world solutions. You will shape the core intelligence layer, enabling agents to reason, remember, and improve over time within a remote work setup.

You will collaborate with product and engineering teams to push boundaries in evaluation frameworks, memory architectures, and ongoing experimentation, while maintaining

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software engineering with GenAI in production.
• Experience building or researching agent frameworks / tool-using LLMs.
• Memory / retrieval systems (RAG, vector DBs, hybrid retrieval).
• Expert Python developer.

Responsibilities

• Design multi-step reasoning agents (tool use, planning, reflection, self-improvement loops).
• Develop frameworks for multi-agent coordination and task decomposition.
• Improve reliability, latency, and cost efficiency of agent execution.

Skills

Agent frameworks / LLMs

Memory / retrieval systems

Python

OpenClaw

Claude Code harness

Startup mindset

LangGraph

AutoGen

Tools

Python

LangGraph

AutoGen

OpenClaw

Claude Code harness

Job description

Dropzone AI is seeking a Senior to Principal-level AI Research Engineer to lead design and development of agentic AI systems that translate cutting-edge research into scalable, real-world solutions. You will shape the core intelligence layer, enabling agents to reason, remember, and improve over time within a remote work setup.

You will collaborate with product and engineering teams to push boundaries in evaluation frameworks, memory architectures, and ongoing experimentation, while maintaining