About the role
Zep is the memory and context layer for AI agents. As a Senior AI Engineer, you'll build low-latency backend systems, operate them in production on AWS, and ship LLM-powered capabilities our customers depend on.
You'll have the opportunity to work on Graphiti (25K+ GitHub stars), Zep’s popular open-source context graph framework.
This is a senior backend role centered on running LLM workloads at significant scale. We're not hiring ML researchers or data scientists. We're hiring engineers who have already lived through the messy reality of taking an LLM application 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. When we find pain, we go fix it.
We expect the same back: ask questions early, push back when you disagree, and care about the people on the other end of the API.
What you'll do
- Ship product features end-to-end across backend services, APIs, data flows, and the supporting UI where it makes sense.
- Build and operate LLM-powered systems: extraction pipelines, evaluation harnesses, and reliability improvements running at scale.
- Contribute to system design for new components. Write the code, document the decisions, iterate.
- Improve production quality across performance, observability, and operational runbooks on AWS.
What we're looking for
- 6+ years of production engineering with a strong backend systems background. You've shipped services with real throughput and latency requirements.
- Master's in Computer Science or equivalent.
- Go and Python experience in real systems. You can work in critical-path code and on performance.
