Software Engineer, Product

Cursor Cursor · Coding AI · San Francisco, CA · Engineering

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.

What you'd actually do

  1. Inventing new interfaces and UX for reviewing PRs of AI-generated code
  2. Sprint for two weeks to build a new product vertical from scratch (e.g., AI bug detection)
  3. Run experiments and A/B tests on millions of users to push the frontier of agent quality - ex sub-agents, memories, and PR retrieval

Skills

Required

  • Software engineering
  • Product development
  • AI/ML understanding
  • Experimentation
  • A/B testing

Nice to have

  • Research
  • Design
  • Creative problem-solving

What the JD emphasized

  • push the frontier of agent quality

Other signals

  • Inventing new interfaces and UX for reviewing PRs of AI-generated code
  • Running experiments and A/B tests on millions of users to push the frontier of agent quality - ex sub-agents, memories, and PR retrieval