Cursor
Coding AI · AI code editor (Anysphere)
Currently tracking 17 active AI roles, down 26% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering.
Cursor is actively hiring for 28 AI-related roles. The majority of these positions, 43%, are focused on agents, with application roles making up another significant portion at 29%. The company is primarily seeking candidates for Engineering positions, with a notable concentration of roles in the United States. Cursor's hiring is emphasizing technologies such as agent orchestration, code generation, and model serving. Over the last 30 days, Cursor has posted 5 new AI roles, representing a 29% decrease compared to the previous 30-day period.
Coding AI · AI code editor (Anysphere)
Cursor currently has 28 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Forward Deployed Engineer (2), Regional Director, Forward Deployed Engineering (2), Engineering Manager, Agent & Product Security, Engineering Manager, Core Services, Engineering Manager, Evals. Most positions are in Engineering and Product.
Cursor's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (43%), application (29%), evaluation (11%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Cursor is hiring AI talent in: United States (21 roles), United Kingdom (3 roles), India (1 role), Germany (1 role).
Job postings at Cursor most frequently mention: LLM Evaluation & Grading, System Design, Software Engineering, Research Publications, Reliability Engineering.
In the past 30 days, Cursor has posted 5 new AI-related roles.
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Research Scientist Research Scientist at Cursor focused on automating coding by training frontier coding agents. The role involves driving RL or mid-training research, owning ambiguous research problems end-to-end, and pushing results into the next model. Key responsibilities include improving RL understanding for longer tasks with less compute, training graders for coding tasks with non-verifiable rewards, improving training data quality, and researching real-time RL for coding agents. Requires a deep background in RL, strong ML fundamentals, excellent programming skills, and the ability to handle ambiguous research tasks with autonomy. | Post-trainAgent | 10 |
| Software Engineer, ML Research Research Engineer at Cursor focused on building the training, inference, and data systems for frontier coding models, including scaling RL on user data and creating infrastructure for large-scale data jobs. | DataPost-train | 9 |
| Software Engineer, Agent Harness Software Engineer on the Agent Harness team at Cursor, responsible for building core agent behavior and capabilities, including agent orchestration, tools, guardrails, and model behavior tuning. The role also involves defining the default Cursor agent experience and launching new models. | Agent | 9 |
| Forward Deployed Strategist This role focuses on customer-facing strategy and deployment for AI-native workflows, specifically agentic coding and LLMs. The Strategist partners with executive sponsors to scope and shape projects, works hands-on with the configuration layer of AI platforms, and ensures successful adoption and business outcomes. The role requires strong technical understanding of LLMs and agentic systems, combined with executive presence and project delivery ownership. | Agent | 8 |
| Engineering Manager, ML Engineering Manager to lead a team building ML infrastructure for training, testing, and evaluating models. The role involves setting technical direction, debugging systems and models, and collaborating with researchers on infrastructure decisions. Responsibilities include building rollout infrastructure for RL experiments, designing eval pipelines, owning training/testing environments, measuring quality, and hiring/growing the team. | Eval GatePost-train | 8 |
| Forward Deployed Engineer - EMEA This role focuses on embedding with customer engineering teams to design, build, and ship production-grade AI-powered workflows using Cursor. The engineer will own the entire lifecycle from discovery to post-production support, focusing on practical solutions that measurably improve software development processes. Key responsibilities include identifying bottlenecks, building and iterating on AI workflows, ensuring production quality (monitoring, evals, debugging), and collaborating with leadership. | Agent | 8 |
| Engineering Manager, Evals Engineering Manager for the Evals team at Cursor, responsible for creating high-signal evaluation datasets for coding agents, building tools for engineers to write and run evals, and owning online evaluation systems that track agent quality in production. The role involves setting the eval roadmap, leading a team of engineers and researchers, guiding the development of evaluation benchmarks like CursorBench, defining online quality signals, and integrating evals into decision-making processes for launches, deploys, and model training. | Eval Gate | 8 |
| Software Engineer, Agent Evaluation and Quality Software Engineer on the Agent Quality team at Cursor, responsible for building the measurement, evaluation, and feedback-loop infrastructure to improve the Cursor core agent. This role involves designing and building AI evaluation systems, feedback loops from user usage, analysis tooling for agent behavior, and improving reliability and guardrails by making quality measurable. | Eval GateAgent | 8 |
| Forward Deployed Engineer Role focuses on embedding with customer engineering teams to build and ship production-grade AI-powered workflows using Cursor. This involves identifying bottlenecks, designing solutions, and owning the end-to-end lifecycle including reliability, monitoring, and iteration. The role requires strong engineering skills and experience with AI-native applications in production. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Software Engineer, Bugbot Software Engineer to work on Bugbot, an AI code reviewer that automates coding by reviewing pull requests, catching bugs, and suggesting improvements. The role involves end-to-end feature shipping, evolving the review pipeline, building integrations, owning product quality and reliability, and designing onboarding flows. It requires moving fluidly between the model layer and the product layer, with a focus on shipping genuinely useful AI-assisted code review. | Agent | 8 |
| Software Engineer, ML Infrastructure Software Engineer focused on building and scaling ML infrastructure, including compute, storage, and software systems to support large-scale training of agentic coding models. The role involves collaborating with researchers, managing GPU infrastructure, and improving training framework performance and reliability. | DataPost-train | 8 |
| Software Engineer, Product Software Engineer, Product role at Cursor focused on automating coding by building tools for professional programmers, leveraging inventive research, design, and engineering. The role involves creating software for users, particularly in the editor, and inventing new ways to build software. Sample projects include developing AI-generated code review interfaces, building new product verticals like AI bug detection, and running experiments to improve agent quality, sub-agents, memories, and PR retrieval. | Agent | 8 |
| Product Education Engineer This role focuses on creating technical content and hands-on experiences to help developers become proficient with Cursor, an AI coding tool. The Product Education Engineer will build demos, tutorials, and workshops, acting as a subject matter expert and a bridge between product and field teams. The goal is to drive adoption and measurable outcomes for AI coding tools. | Ship | 7 |
| Forward Deployed Engineer This role focuses on embedding with customer engineering teams to build and deploy production-grade AI-powered workflows that automate coding tasks. The engineer will own the entire lifecycle from discovery and design to shipping, iteration, and production support, including reliability, monitoring, and performance tradeoffs. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Engineering Manager, Agent & Product Security Engineering Manager for Agent & Product Security at Cursor, focusing on making agentic software development trustworthy. The role involves leading a team to define and build security primitives for agent autonomy, including identity, delegated authority, policy enforcement, secure tool execution, and prompt-injection containment, directly impacting product strategy and customer adoption. | Agent | 7 |
| Software Engineer, Model Routing & Inference Software Engineer on the Model Routing & Inference team responsible for building and evolving the inference platform that powers all AI interactions in the product, focusing on speed, reliability, and cost-effectiveness at scale. | Serve | 7 |
| Software Engineer, Generalist Cursor is building a tool to automate coding, starting with a product for professional programmers. This role involves inventive research, design, and engineering within a flat, talent-dense organization. | Agent | 7 |