Founding Engineer

Summary

Join Cape, a venture-backed startup building an agent for networking, focusing on warm intros in sales. The team is experienced, with founders having over 10 years at YC-backed startups and backgrounds from Stanford/Harvard. The company is funded and has achieved early product-market fit. This is a remote or in-person (NYC) founding engineer role. You will build agents, work on social algorithms, and contribute to core agent development. The role involves prompt engineering, fine-tuning LLMs, and making key technical decisions.

Requirements

• 2-5 years of software engineering experience, strong coding skills
• Remote or in-person (founders are in NY / engineers in Singapore)
• Experience with customizing Copilot / Cursor / Windsurf 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

Responsibilities

• Contribute to our core agent (and test it 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)