Job description
Founding Engineer @ Cape
About Us
We’re venture-backed founders building an agent for networking, starting with warm intros in the sales space. We’re run by an experienced team (founders have 10+ years at YC-backed startups, ex-Stanford / Harvard), funded, and have found early pmf with several dozen companies ranging from seed to Series C.
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
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)
Qualifications
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
