前方部署工程师（亚太区）
Forward Deployed Engineer (APAC)
## **关于Cape**
Cape是美国以隐私为首要考虑的移动运营商。我们的使命是在全球无线领域成为一股善的力量。Cape由一群相信隐私是一项基本权利而非可交易的奢侈品的人于2022年创立。我们的旅程始于创始人发现现代世界中的一个关键漏洞：每个人都依赖相同的停滞不前的蜂窝基础设施和遗留系统，这些系统追踪我们的每一步，监控并分析我们的联系，丢失并出售我们的个人数据。
我们没有接受现状，而是决定加以改进。国家安全专家、记者、父母以及介于两者之间的每个人都可以保持连接并拥有隐私。
我们不仅仅是在旧技术上构建一层；我们从零开始打造了美国最私密、最安全的移动运营商。通过从零开始构建自己的网络，我们能够设计和构建一套其他任何运营商都无法提供的隐私和安全功能。
如今，Cape为消费者、企业和政府机构提供安全的网络。我们在2026年3月完成了C轮融资，正在迅速扩展，目标是让人们重新掌控他们最私人的信息。
## **团队**
在Cape，我们是隐私驱动运动的建筑师，这个运动才刚刚开始。我们是不懈的建造者，不断在电信领域的可能性边缘进行创新。我们建立在高信任和高期望的基础上。我们的结构是扁平化的，协作比等级制度更重要。作为我们团队的一员，你将与世界级的工程师、架构师和先驱者合作，并跨组织线解决“不可能”的问题，每天为我们的用户交付关键任务结果。
## **职位**
前进部署工程师（FDE）是确保Cape产品真正为最依赖它们的客户在实地运行的技术操作人员。在一个充满演示软件和宏大承诺的世界中，FDE带来实际成果：他们与联邦客户紧密合作，将模糊的任务需求转化为可用的软件，并将艰难获得的需求信号反馈到产品和工程中。
这是一个位于业务发展和工程之间的动手型构建角色。你将成为客户在Cape的技术代言人，也是Cape在客户建筑内的技术代言人。你将规划部署，原型集成，排查故障，
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## **About Cape**
Cape is America’s privacy-first mobile carrier. Our mission is to be a force for good in global wireless. Cape was founded in 2022 by people who believe privacy is a fundamental right, not a luxury to be traded away. Our journey began when our founder recognized a critical vulnerability in our modern world: everyone relies on the same stagnant cellular infrastructure and legacy systems that track our every movement, monitor and profile our connections, and lose and sell our personal data.
Instead of accepting the status quo, we decided to fix it. National security professionals, journalists, parents, and everyone in between can stay connected _and_ have privacy.
We didn’t just build a layer on top of old tech; we built America’s most private and secure mobile carrier from the ground up. By building our own network from scratch, we are able to design and build a suite of privacy and security features that no other carrier on the planet can offer.
Today, Cape provides our secure network to consumers, businesses, and government agencies alike. We closed our Series C in March 2026, and we are scaling rapidly, with the goal of giving people back control of their most personal information.
## **The Team**
At Cape, we are the architects of a privacy-centric movement that is just getting started. We are relentless builders, constantly innovating at the edge of what's possible in telecommunications. We operate on a foundation of high trust and high expectations. Our structure is flat, and collaboration matters more than hierarchy. As a member of our team, you will collaborate with world-class engineers, architects, and visionaries, and work across organizational lines to solve "impossible" problems and deliver mission-critical results for our users every single day.
## **The Role**
Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) are the technical operators who ensure Cape’s products actually work in the field for the customers who depend on them most. In a world of demo-ware and big promises, FDEs delivers tangible outcomes: they embed with federal customers, translate ambiguous mission needs into working software, and feed hard-won demand signal back into product and engineering.
This is a hands-on builder role at the seam between Business Development and Engineering. You will be the customer’s technical advocate inside Cape and Cape’s technical advocate inside the customer’s building. You will scope deployments, prototype integrations, troubleshoot live issues on production networks, and pull engineering priorities directly from operator pain. Where the product doesn’t yet do what the mission requires, you will build the bridge—and then push the durable fix into the roadmap.
FDE is a small, high-trust team. We're building this together. You will not be handed a playbook, you'll help write it.
## **What You'll Work On**
**Customer Deployment & Delivery**
- Own the technical delivery of Cape’s products into federal/national security/enterprise customer environments—from first prototype through operational acceptance and sustainment
- Embed with customer teams around the world to understand workflows, threat models, and constraints that don’t appear in any requirements document
- Configure, integrate, and tune Cape’s mobile core capabilities against the specific mission profile of each deployment
- Lead customer exercises, pilots, and demonstrations; structure them to produce decision-quality evidence rather than theater
- Provide direct technical support during live operations and incidents; conduct root-cause analyses and drive preventive fixes back into the platform
**Prototyping & Engineering**
- Write production-grade code to build the glue, integrations, tooling, and one-off capabilities that unblock customer deployments
- Prototype new product features in the field, validate them against real mission use, and work with core engineering teams to expand on successful hypotheses
- Make sound tradeoffs between bespoke customer work and reusable platform investment—default toward the platform when the pattern repeats
**Bridge Between Customer, Product, and Engineering**
- Translate customer mission requirements into clear, prioritized engineering asks; then work alongside the broader engineering team to build the features that address them; translate engineering constraints back into language program officers and operators can act on
- Advocate internally for customer priorities with concrete evidence: deployment data, operator quotes, blocking issues, and the cost of inaction
- Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to inform the roadmap—surfacing patterns across deployments that warrant platform investment versus one-off solutions
- Partner with Business Development and Solutions Architects on captures, pilots, and follow-on opportunities; provide the technical credibility that converts pilots into programs of record
- Embed with the broader engineering team to design and ship customer-specific features
## **Experience**
- 2+ years of experience in a software engineering or forward deployed engineering role
- **Fluency in Mandarin Chinese (spoken and written)**
- **Based in (or willing to relocate/travel to) the Asia-Pacific region.**
- Demonstrated technical competency across multiple domains—a “Swiss army knife” profile who can credibly code, debug networking issues, reason about systems-level tradeoffs, and learn quickly
- Strong ability to scope ambiguous problems, sequence delivery, and make sound prioritization calls without explicit instruction
- Excellent written and verbal communication; able to brief a flag officer, write a clear engineering ticket, and run a customer working session with equal fluency
- High ownership and resourcefulness—comfort with the parts of the job that aren’t glamorous, and a track record of doing whatever needs to be done to deliver
- Demonstrated ability to engage directly with customers to scope technical requirements and deliver against them end to end
- Willingness to travel up to 50% to customer sites, military installations, and partner locations
### **Preferred**
- Background in mobile networks, telecom, networking infrastructure, or cybersecurity
- U.S. citizenship and eligibility for a U.S. Top Secret security clearance (active TS strongly preferred).
- Prior military service, government civilian experience, or time in roles involving communications, signals, cyber, or intelligence
- Experience in a hands-on technical role with significant customer facing responsibilities—for example, a former FDE in a high growth startup, a startup engineer who carried customer deployments, or a defense tech deployment engineer (Palantir, Anduril, Shield AI, etc.)
- Experience as an early engineer or operator at a high-growth startup—comfort with the ambiguity, pace, and missing infrastructure that comes with sub-100-person companies
- Experience teaching, mentoring, or onboarding technical teammates
- Track record of taking field-driven feature work into a core product roadmap
## Compensation
We offer competitive compensation that is geo-adjusted based on your location, along with meaningful equity so you share in the value you help create. Salary range for this role in NYC/DC is $175k-$235k depending on experience and interview performance and location.
Our benefits include:
- 401(k) match
- 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision premiums for you and your dependents
- 12 weeks paid parental leave (for all parents, no waiting period)
- Stipends for
- Family-forming needs
- Gender-affirming care
- Unlimited PTO
- Relocation and moving assistance if needed
## **Our Culture & Values**
- We hire excellent people, give them outsized responsibility, and trust them to execute. Every person at Cape has a proven track record of tackling hard problems and winning.
- We believe that personal privacy and national security are not at odds, and that they can be reconciled through strong technology.
- We believe companies exist to build awesome things and take care of the people who build them, so we offer top-tier healthcare, 401(k) matching, and a generous vacation policy that our team actually uses to recharge.
- We believe that a stronger company and a better product are built by people from all walks of life. We hire without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, disability, or Veteran status. If you are great at what you do, you belong here.
## **How to apply**
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We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin, and without regard to disability or status as a protected veteran, or any other status protected by law.