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Mem Protocol

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Researcher

Location
San Francisco, California
Work arrangement
On-site

About the role

Posted Mar 27, 2026

## About Us

We build the portable identity and permissions layer for people and the agents acting on their behalf.

In a world where software is starting to act the biggest constraint is trust: knowing who can do what, on whose behalf, in which system, with a clear record of every action.

Today, that trust is broken across siloed apps, scattered accounts, and incomplete audit trails. We fix that by making identity, permissions, and accountability portable across organizations and systems.

## 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.

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