Founding Engineer - Cape

New York City on site Until 8/21/2026 First posted September 10, 2025 Last posted September 10, 2025
Job description

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

About this role

Summary

Build and optimize AI agents using prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and distributed systems.

Job title

Founding Engineer

Experience level

3-7 years

Industry

technology

Location requirements

Remote or in-person in NYC, flexible work arrangement

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

typescriptpostgresnextjsprismadockerllm fine-tuninglangchain

Preferred skills

cursorwindsurfclaude codelangsmith

Specializations

prompt engineeringllm fine-tuningdistributed systemstypescriptdocker
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

New York, NY, USA

Hybrid City