Head of Federal Engineering

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. 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 Problem

The commercial cellular network represents trillions of dollars in private investment worldwide. It is performant, highly available, near ubiquitous, and the spec is mature and well understood. It’s the perfect transport layer for government use cases, if only they could trust the network. But they cannot: that infrastructure is easily disrupted and surveilled, and existing solutions are typically clunky, proprietary, and fail at the first sign of a contested RF environment. Cape started at first principles to build a secure network architecture that operates through assumed compromised physical infrastructure. Now we need to solve operational capabilities at scale. How do we provide security-first, resilient communications for operators at the tactical edge? How do we ensure connectivity without compromise when the backhaul is being actively jammed, intercepted, or physically severed? We are moving from validated technology to mission-critical infrastructure that works in contested environments when failure is not an option. Leading this team of engineers is a high stakes, critical role and will be deeply rewarding for the right person.

The Role

Cape’s platform gives customers end-to-end control of their digital identity, even as they connect to untrusted networks, optimizing for resiliency, privacy, and security at every turn. As the Head of Federal Engineering, you will gain rare insight into the world’s most challenging environments. You will own the technical execution of the federal business, partnering with Business Development and Product to bridge the gap between our core technology and the specific, demanding requirements of our government partners. You will cultivate a high-performing technical team, providing the mentorship needed to deliver outcomes in highly regulated spaces. Your charge is to grow the business and empower your engineers to work autonomously in remote locations, making great technical decisions to build the most overlooked yet critical components of modern Command and Control (C2)--the transport layer.

Core Responsibilities

• Architect and execute the technical vision for our federal engineering organization, building the secure, resilient, and scalable network and platform that our nation's most