Zep AI (YC W24)
Lead Forward Deployed Engineer
We captured this posting once, on 2026-05-22, and did not track it afterwards — so we cannot tell you whether it is still open.
- Employer
- Zep AI (YC W24)
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
- Seniority
- Senior
- Experience asked for
- 6+ years
- Pay band
- $175K – $250K
When we saw it
- Posted 2026-05-06 — the date the employer published it
- Archived 2026-05-22 — when we saved this copy
Found via LinkedIn — US keyword pulls.
Skills the posting named
From the posting
Zep is the memory and context layer for AI agents. As Lead Forward Deployed Engineer, you'll embed with customer engineering teams to integrate Zep into their production agent systems: diagnosing context-quality failures, designing memory architectures around their data, and shipping the integrations that make their agents actually work in the wild. This is an applied AI engineering role with a customer surface. We're not looking for ML researchers or data scientists. We're looking for engineers who have already lived through the messy reality of taking an agent from demo to production. How We Work We're a small, distributed team that works closely together. We pair on hard problems, review each other's designs, and treat learning as part of the job rather than something that happens after hours. We ask a lot of questions: of customers, of teammates, of our own assumptions. …
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