Currently tracking 15 active AI roles, up 30% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering.
Cursor is actively hiring for 21 AI-related roles, with a significant focus on the "agents" stage, representing 52% of their open positions. The majority of these roles are within the Engineering function, and all current hiring is concentrated in the United States. Their technical needs are reflected in frequent tags such as agent_orchestration, llm_observability, and evals.
Cursor currently has 25 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Data Scientist, Performance and Reliability, Engineering Manager, Core Services, Engineering Manager, Evals, Engineering Manager, Model Routing & Inference, Forward Deployed Engineer. Most positions are in Engineering and Product.
Cursor's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (44%), application (20%), evaluation (12%). 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 (2 roles), Singapore (1 role).
Job postings at Cursor most frequently reference: agent orchestration, evals, llm observability, model serving, code gen.
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 |
| Product Manager, Agent Harness Product Manager for Cursor's Agent Harness, responsible for the framework that enables AI agents to decompose tasks, interact with the file system/terminal, handle failures, and be observed/steered by developers. The role involves turning research advances into product, analyzing agent traces, designing evaluation frameworks, and defining agent extensibility primitives. |
| AgentEval Gate |
| 9 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Product Manager, Cloud Agents Product Manager for Cloud Agents, focusing on automating coding tasks for professional programmers by developing and owning the product for provisioning, orchestrating, and monitoring AI agents that run on cloud VMs. The role involves designing the developer experience for task handoff, agent output review, and ensuring the agents are fast, trustworthy, and efficient. | Agent | 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 |
| Engineering Manager, Model Routing & Inference Engineering Manager to lead the Model Routing & Inference team, owning the inference platform that powers all AI interactions in the product. Responsibilities include setting technical direction for cluster management, inference optimization, and traffic egress, managing GPU utilization, capacity planning, and designing routing mechanisms. The role involves leading a team, hiring, and coaching engineers. | ServeAgent | 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 Manager Product Manager at Cursor, a company focused on automating coding by building tools for professional programmers. The role involves customer discovery, writing code, prototyping with AI, defining feature strategy, owning launch execution, partnering with customers and sales, prioritizing bug fixes, working with data science on metrics, and writing changelogs. Requires daily use of AI coding tools, engineering or deep developer tools experience, and ability to build and deploy applications. | Ship | 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 |
| Director, Product Education Engineering This role leads the technical curriculum function for Cursor, focusing on automating coding through AI tools. The Director will build and manage the roadmap, content architecture, and team for educational infrastructure to ensure developers can adopt new capabilities. Responsibilities include hands-on content creation, partnering with Product and Engineering, defining adoption metrics, and hiring/developing a team. The role requires extensive experience in technical education/developer content strategy, fluency in AI and SDLC tooling, and the ability to work in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment. | — | 5 |
| Executive Assistant, User Operations Executive Assistant to support Head of User Operations and two other executives, focusing on enabling clarity, efficiency, and execution within a fast-moving User Operations organization. Responsibilities include complex calendar management, travel coordination, business writing, and supporting Go-to-Market operating rhythm. Requires strong organizational skills, business writing, and assertiveness. Experience with modern AI tools is a plus. | — | 5 |
| Account Executive, Commercial - San Francisco This role is for a Commercial Account Executive at Cursor, a company focused on automating coding with AI. The primary responsibility is to drive revenue growth by building strategic relationships with customers, demonstrating how Cursor transforms developer productivity, and guiding them through evaluation and implementation. The role requires technical fluency and sales expertise to help companies reimagine software development with AI. The Account Executive will manage the full sales cycle, build pipelines, and influence the product roadmap with customer feedback. | — | 5 |
| Data Scientist, GTM Data Scientist, GTM role at an AI company focused on automating coding. This role will build data infrastructure, models, and insights for the Go-To-Market (GTM) organization, focusing on pipeline, conversion, and retention metrics. It involves defining how GTM interacts with data in an AI-first way and partnering with other data teams. | — | 5 |
| Technical Program Manager (TPM), Infrastructure Technical Program Manager (TPM) to partner with Infrastructure and ML teams to drive COGS attribution, R&D spend efficiency, and resource allocation across Cursor's infrastructure. This role partners with engineering leaders in ML, Infrastructure, and Finance to turn complex cost and capacity data into clear decisions, then drives the programs that land those decisions. Owns programs for GPU allocation, inference cost management, infrastructure spend attribution, and R&D investment efficiency. | — | 5 |
| Analytics Platform Engineer This role focuses on building and optimizing the data platform infrastructure, including data ingestion, orchestration, and security, to support a growing data team and business stakeholders. It involves hands-on work with data lakehouse architecture and modern data stack tooling. | — | 5 |
| User Researcher User Researcher at Cursor, a company aiming to automate coding, focusing on understanding user needs and guiding product development through qualitative and quantitative research methods. | — | 5 |
| Commercial Expansion Account Executive This role is for a Commercial Expansion Account Executive at Cursor, a company focused on automating coding with AI. The primary responsibility is to manage and grow existing commercial accounts, driving expansion, renewals, and cross-selling of Cursor's platform. The role involves proactive engagement with customer leadership, monitoring usage, running renewal motions, and staying informed about the AI ecosystem to translate technical capabilities into customer value. Success is measured by hitting expansion and renewal targets, growing customer adoption, and acting as a strategic partner. The ideal candidate has B2B SaaS sales experience, particularly with technical products and expansion/renewal cycles, and is comfortable with a fast-changing AI landscape. | — | 5 |
| Product Marketing Manager Product Marketing Manager at an AI company focused on automating coding, translating technical products into compelling stories for developers, defining positioning, and influencing product direction. This role involves end-to-end go-to-market strategy, content creation, and customer/market insight gathering. | — | 5 |
| Data Scientist, Performance and Reliability Data Scientist focused on measuring and improving the performance and reliability of Cursor's AI-powered coding tools, including the agent harness, by designing metrics, building measurement frameworks, and partnering with engineers on data tooling. | Eval Gate | 5 |
| Engineering Manager, Desktop Cursor is seeking an Engineering Manager for their Desktop team to lead the product and engineering experience of their desktop application, which is used by millions of developers. The role involves owning the UI, core features, and client-side architecture, and partnering with product, design, and platform teams to deliver a seamless experience, especially concerning how humans and agents collaborate. The manager will set high standards for engineering excellence, performance, and reliability, and will be responsible for hiring and growing the team. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Core Services Software Engineer on the Core Services team at Cursor, owning critical shared services (auth, webhooks, agent backend systems) that sit between product surfaces and infrastructure. Focuses on building reliable, well-abstracted systems for agent workflows and developer experience. | Agent | 5 |
| Engineering Manager, Core Services Engineering Manager to lead the Core Services team at Cursor, focusing on backend systems for agent workflows, authentication, webhooks, and SCM integrations. The role involves setting technical direction, building and operating services, and hiring/growing the team, with a mission to automate coding. | AgentServe | 5 |
| Account Executive, Geo Enterprise Account Executive, Geo Enterprise at Cursor, responsible for driving revenue growth by bringing on new logos, building strategic relationships with customers and helping engineering organizations discover, adopt, and expand their use of Cursor. This role combines technical understanding with sales expertise to help enterprises reimagine how software development can be accelerated with AI. | — | 5 |
| Sales Development Representative Sales Development Representative at Cursor, an AI company focused on automating coding. The role involves generating qualified pipeline through outbound prospecting, researching target accounts, conducting discovery conversations, and representing the company's brand. This position is ideal for someone looking to grow into an Account Executive role within the AI/developer tools space. | — | 5 |
| Account Executive, Geo Enterprise Account Executive, Geo Enterprise at Cursor, responsible for driving revenue growth by acquiring new enterprise clients and building strategic relationships. The role involves selling Cursor, a tool for professional programmers that leverages AI to accelerate software development, to engineering organizations. This position requires a blend of technical understanding and sales expertise to help enterprises adopt and expand their use of Cursor, focusing on quantifying ROI related to developer productivity and AI adoption. | — | 5 |
| AI Deployment Manager This role focuses on the post-sale customer journey for enterprise clients, driving adoption, retention, and expansion of Cursor, an AI-powered coding tool. The AI Deployment Manager will guide engineering organizations in rolling out and evolving their use of AI, acting as a liaison between customers and internal teams (Sales, Field Engineering, Product, Support). Success is measured by customer retention, product adoption, and revenue expansion. | — | 5 |
| Strategic Account Executive, Enterprise Enterprise Account Executive at Cursor, a company focused on automating coding with AI. This role involves owning the full sales cycle for large engineering organizations, driving adoption of Cursor, and working with various stakeholders to close deals. The position requires strong B2B sales experience, technical understanding, and the ability to build pipeline and manage complex sales processes. | — | 5 |
| Strategic Account Executive, Enterprise Drive revenue growth across named enterprise accounts in the East by selling Cursor, an AI-powered developer tool. This role requires deep technical fluency, ability to navigate complex enterprise buying processes, and a genuine passion for AI-powered developer tools. You will be a foundational member of the enterprise sales motion. | — | 5 |
| Commercial Account Executive Commercial Account Executive at Cursor, a company aiming to automate coding by building tools for professional programmers. The role focuses on driving revenue growth by building strategic relationships with customers, demonstrating how Cursor transforms developer productivity, and guiding them through evaluation and implementation. This role requires technical fluency and sales expertise to help companies reimagine software development with AI. | — | 5 |
| Regional Director, Field Engineering Lead and scale a pre-sales Field Engineering team for an AI-native development platform, focusing on enterprise accounts. This role involves technical discovery, demos, proofs of concept, and acting as a liaison between customers and product/engineering teams. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure at Cursor, a company focused on automating coding. This role involves owning and operating data pipelines and storage systems that power model improvement, evals, and experimentation, with a focus on correctness, cost, and ergonomics. The role requires experience with Spark, Ray Data, and debugging performance issues across the data stack. | Data | 5 |
| Regional Director, AI Deployment Lead and develop a team of AI Deployment Managers to scale adoption quality and consistency for enterprise customers using Cursor, a tool for professional programmers. Own the post-sale experience, working with Sales and Field Engineering to ensure customers achieve measurable value. This role requires leading technical teams, driving adoption, and collaborating with Product and Engineering. | — | 5 |
| Design Engineer Design Engineer at Cursor, a company focused on automating coding with AI. The role involves building production-quality UI components, prototyping new concepts, and bridging the gap between design and engineering for an AI code editor and agents. Requires strong front-end skills and an eye for design. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Client Infrastructure Software Engineer on the Client Infrastructure team at Cursor, focusing on building and maintaining the performance and stability of the desktop client for millions of developers. This role involves working across the core architecture, including build systems, performance instrumentation, and shared abstractions, with a focus on enabling rapid and safe releases in an AI-driven development environment. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Growth Product Engineer on the Growth team at Cursor, responsible for designing and implementing systems and features related to Onboarding, Monetization, and the core product experience. The company's mission is to automate coding using AI. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Security Software Engineer focused on security for an AI-powered coding tool. Responsibilities include building secure systems, implementing agent security features, and ensuring safe handling of agent interactions with user systems. | Agent | 5 |
| Field Engineer Field Engineer role focused on partnering with enterprise customers to evaluate and adopt Cursor, an AI-powered coding tool. Responsibilities include technical discovery, proof-of-concept engagements, solution design, and acting as a customer advocate to influence product roadmap. Requires strong communication, technical fluency in AI tooling, and experience in pre-sales or solutions architecture. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Enterprise Software Engineer role focused on building enterprise-grade features for a coding automation tool, leveraging AI and product engineering. | Ship | 5 |
| Technical Sourcer Technical Sourcer for an AI company focused on automating coding. The role involves owning sourcing strategy for various technical roles, building talent maps, identifying passive candidates, and writing effective outreach. Requires 3+ years of technical sourcing experience, ability to assess technical talent from profiles and papers, and strong operational skills. Bonus for AI, compiler, or systems sourcing experience. | — | 0 |
| People Operations Coordinator This role is for a People Operations Coordinator at Cursor, a company focused on automating coding. The coordinator will manage the new hire experience from offer to day one, ensure HR operations run smoothly, and maintain data integrity. The role requires strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to handle sensitive information. | — | 0 |
| HRBP, GTM Senior HR Business Partner to support Cursor's Go-to-Market organization, partnering with leaders in Sales, Marketing, Business Operations, and Recruiting to build high-performing teams. This role requires strong business judgment, operational excellence, and a bias for action to help the business scale effectively in a fast-moving environment. | — | 0 |
| HRBP, Core Business Senior HR Business Partner to support rapidly scaling Business teams, partnering closely with senior leaders across Finance, Legal, Marketing, Operations and People to help build high-performing, durable teams in a fast-moving environment. This role operates as a strategic thought partner and hands-on builder, focusing on organizational effectiveness, performance, talent strategy, and leadership quality. | — | 0 |
| Contract GTM Recruiter Recruiter for a company aiming to automate coding by building tools for professional programmers. This role focuses on hiring for Go-To-Market teams (Sales, Field Engineering, Customer Success, Partnerships, Revenue Operations, GTM Leadership) and acting as a strategic partner to leaders in defining talent strategy, shaping org design, and attracting talent. | — | 0 |
| Contract Business Recruiter Recruiter for a company that builds AI tools for developers. | — | 0 |