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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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, 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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, 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Senior Staff Finance Systems Engineeer Senior Staff Finance Systems Engineer at Cursor, a company focused on automating coding. This role involves owning the technical architecture and implementing complex financial systems, particularly in Order to Cash processes. The engineer will champion AI-forward automation within finance systems and build with a balance of code and configuration. The role requires hands-on development experience with complex finance environments, ERPs, and a strong understanding of developer tooling and CI/CD. | — | 0 |
| IT Operations Engineer This role is for an IT Operations Engineer responsible for end-user support, onboarding, device lifecycle management, access administration, and office technology. The goal is to create a seamless employee experience and ensure smooth IT operations as the company grows. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Infrastructure Software Engineer on the Infrastructure team at Cursor, focusing on the foundational cloud and networking layer, including Kubernetes, geo-deployment, edge and security infrastructure, and cost management. The company's mission is to automate coding. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Services Platform Software Engineer focused on building the internal developer platform, including service provisioning, deployment tooling, and workflow orchestration, to support a rapidly scaling engineering organization. The role emphasizes creating abstractions for sustainable development and production reliability, aiming to improve developer experience and operational efficiency. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Storage Software Engineer on the Storage team at Cursor, owning the data layer (databases, caches) and the strategy for data provisioning, querying, and scaling. Focuses on designing and executing a robust, multi-database topology for company growth. | — | 0 |
| Engineering Manager, Infrastructure Engineering Manager for the Infrastructure team at Cursor, focusing on foundational cloud, networking, storage, and compute layers. Responsibilities include owning Kubernetes, geo-deployment architecture, edge/security infrastructure, data storage strategy, cost management, and unifying the compute platform. The role involves technical direction, coding, and team leadership. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Enterprise Platform Software Engineer, Enterprise Platform at Cursor, focused on building foundational systems for enterprise customers including organization management, access control (RBAC), compliance features, and administrative tooling. This role is deeply technical and emphasizes building secure, scalable infrastructure for large organizations. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Billing Software Engineer, Billing role focused on building and evolving the systems for charging and reconciling revenue for a coding automation company. Responsibilities include implementing usage and billing systems end-to-end, evolving the ledger system, integrating with Stripe, building billing APIs and tooling, and improving observability across the billing pipeline. This is a deeply technical IC role focused solely on billing. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Developer Productivity Software Engineer focused on developer productivity, building internal tools and systems to enhance the development experience for Cursor engineers. This includes architecting and implementing CI/CD, build systems, and developer environments to maximize efficiency and reliability, with potential for these internal tools to become external product features. | — | 0 |