Software Engineer, Product

at 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
Read full job description

Our mission is to automate coding. The first step in our journey is to build the best tool for professional programmers, using a combination of inventive research, design, and engineering. Our organization is very flat, and our team is small and talent dense. We particularly like people who are truth-seeking, passionate, and creative. We enjoy spirited debate, crazy ideas, and shipping code.

About the Role

Product engineers create the software we ship to our users, in particular our editor. As a member of our core product team, you'll join us in inventing a new, better way to build software.

You may be a fit if

  • You've built a great product.
  • You blend excellent engineering with a taste for models and design.
  • You have a propensity for creative ideas and have a knack for making powerful tools without compromising their ease-of-use.

Sample projects include

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

Applying

If there appears to be a fit, we'll reach to schedule 2-3 short technicals. After, we'll schedule an onsite in our office, where you'll work on a small project, discuss ideas, and meet the team.

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