Head of AI Architecture – Personality & Memory Systems (Remote/Equity) – Amazon Store

Head of AI Architecture – Personality & Memory Systems

American AI & Automation (AAIA) is building emotionally intelligent, behaviorally rich AI agents as part of our Consumer Products Division. We already have a dedicated cognitive/psychology lead (CPI) defining how our agents should behave — now we’re hiring a technical counterpart to make those systems real.

We’re looking for a senior architect or applied AI engineer to own the infrastructure, architecture, and logic for long-term memory, behavioral layering, context retention, and identity continuity in our LLM-powered agents.

This is a deeply technical role focused on pushing LLMs beyond chat, into agents with continuity, depth, personality, and history.

What You’ll Build:

• A modular architecture for LLM-based agents with persistent identity and behavior
• Memory systems — episodic, semantic, and situational — for long-term context
• Behavioral layering engines that reflect personality, tone, and role dynamics
• Tools for internal state modeling, emotional consistency, and history tracking
• Retrieval pipelines, embedding systems, and prompt chaining strategies that scale
• Interfaces for collaboration with psychology, product, and engineering teams
• Systems that support evolving agents over days, weeks, months — not just sessions

Ideal Background:

• 5+ years in machine learning, NLP, or applied AI systems engineering
• Hands-on experience with LLMs, embeddings, vector databases, prompt engineering
• You’ve built or architected memory systems, agent frameworks, or context persistence layers
• Strong understanding of LLM limitations and how to augment them with retrieval, logic, or tools
• Experience working on AI tools, games, companions, or emotionally-aware systems
• Collaborative mindset — you’ll be building alongside our Chief of Personality & Interaction (CPI)

Bonus Points for Experience With:

• LangChain, Semantic Kernel, ReAct-style architectures, or custom agent frameworks
• Memory representation formats (e.g., summarization, key embedding, episodic tagging)
• Working with clinical or theoretical psychologists
• Prior work on AI therapy, conversational sims, or emotional agents

Compensation:

• Monthly base: $12K–$25K/month depending on experience and scope
• Equity: up to 20–30%, depending on depth of involvement and system ownership
• Optional performance-based bonuses tied to retention, engagement, or system reusability

What You’ll Get:

• Full technical ownership over a system most companies haven’t even started building
• Direct collaboration with experts in psychology, product, and LLM engineering
• A portfolio of consumer AI products to plug your system into
• A chance to build the behavioral backbone of emotionally resonant AI
• Remote-first, highly autonomous, zero-bureaucracy team environment

If you’ve ever said, “LLMs are powerful, but they forget who they are five minutes in” — this is your opportunity to fix that.

Send us past systems, experiments, diagrams, repos — anything that shows how you think.

Job Types: Full-time, Contract

Pay: $100.00 - $400.00 per hour

Benefits:

Work Location: Remote