Founding Engineer - Cape

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New York City, NY
In-Office
Angel or VC Firm
The Role
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.

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  • 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

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Year Founded: 2013

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