# Head of Forward Deployed Engineering at Zep AI

- Company: Zep AI (YC W24)
- What the company does: The unified context layer for enterprise data. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.getzep.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US)
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $220K to $270K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-04
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/zep-ai/jobs/mVon3qA-head-of-forward-deployed-engineering
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/zep-ai-head-of-forward-deployed-engineering/

## About the role

Zep manages, governs, and serves agent memory at enterprise scale. Enterprises build on Zep to run reliable, personalized agents across the business: millions of Context Graphs, served in under 200ms, inside their own VPCs and cloud deployments. Customers include Zscaler, Samsung, Twin Health, HoneyBook, and NASDAQ 100 and Fortune 500 technology companies. We also build Graphiti, our open-source context graph framework (30K+ GitHub stars).

## What they're looking for

- 10+ years across software engineering, forward deployed engineering, solutions architecture, or sales engineering, with several of those years as a hands-on engineer
- You have taken enterprise deployments from first call to production under a security review and a fixed deadline
- 3+ years leading customer-facing technical people, or a clear case for why you are ready to
- Strong Python, plus Go or TypeScript. You will read our codebase and send patches
- You have shipped a non-trivial agentic system to production. Not a prototype, not a thin wrapper over a chat-completion API
- Comfortable in customer infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and the identity and encryption work a BYOC install requires

Tags: Engineering