Founding Engineer - Cape

Founding Engineer @ Cape

About Us

We’re venture-backed founders building AI for professional relationships (eventually all relationships). Our first power use case is an agent swarm that helps startups get warm intros to their dream customers & investors. We’re run by an experienced team (founders have 10+ years at YC-backed startups, ex-Stanford / Harvard), seed funded, and have found early pmf with several dozen companies ranging from Seed to Series C.

Learn more here: https://joincape.ai/

tldr;

• Remote / in-person in NYC (we’ll pay for office space / monitors)

• Part of founding team on the way to pmf

• Build agents and hack on social algorithms

• Work hard and do the best work of your life

Responsibilities

• Contribute to our core agents (and test them on your own network use cases)

• Use prompt engineering and fine-tuning with foundation LLMs

• Contribute everywhere and own technical decisions (ex new design pattern, architect agent development)

Qualifications

• 3-7 years of software engineering experience, strong coding skills

• High attention to detail and pride in your craft

• Remote or in-person (founders are in NY / engineers are NY & remote)

• Experience with customizing Cursor / Windsurf / Claude Code to speed up development

• Experience deploying and maintaining services in a distributed systems environment (handle failures, measure latency)

• Experience with our stack - Typescript, Postgres, NextJS, Prisma, Docker

• Experience with LLM fine-tuning and deployment

• Experience with tools like Langsmith and Langchain for building agents