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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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, 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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, 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 |
| 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 |
| 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, 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 |