Zep AI (YC W24) · 4 days ago
Lead Forward Deployed Engineer
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$175K/yr - $250K/yrZep AI is a context engineering platform for AI agents, and they are seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to own technical delivery for strategic customer deployments. The role involves collaborating with customer engineering teams, shipping production code, and enhancing the product and deployment playbook.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Enterprise SoftwareGenerative AISaaS
Responsibilities
Own end-to-end delivery for strategic deployments: scope, design, build, rollout, stabilize
Embed with customer engineers to integrate Zep into real systems: data, APIs, auth, infra
Ship production code: integrations, reference implementations, performance and reliability fixes
Help level up the FDE function: coach newer FDEs on execution, review designs/code when useful, and capture repeatable patterns
Qualification
Required
Strong production engineering background. You can own architecture plus implementation
Comfortable working across customer stacks and cloud primitives (AWS or GCP, Docker, networking basics)
Fast debugging and strong operational instincts in messy, real environments
Can lead by doing: clear communicator who can run customer working sessions and coach junior FDEs in the flow of work
Benefits
Health, Dental, Vision Insurance
401K match
Phone Benefits
Company
Zep AI (YC W24)
Agent Memory | Graph RAG | Context Assembly . Systematically engineer relevant context from chat history & business data.
Founded in 2023
2-10 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$2.3M2024-03-05Pre Seed· $0.5M
2023-12-27Pre Seed· $1.8M
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