Software Engineer, Product

Cursor; California (MO); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Cursor is seeking product engineers to help build our editor and shape the tools used by professional programmers. You will join a small, flat team with a passion for truth-seeking and shipping code.

You will invent new interfaces, run rapid sprints, and push the boundaries of AI-assisted software with experiments and data-driven decisions. A collaborative, creative environment awaits at Cursor.

Qualifications

• Built a great product as a track record.
• Hybrid of engineering excellence with design sensibility.
• Shows creativity in ideas and making powerful tools easy to use.

Responsibilities

• Develop interfaces and UX for reviewing AI-generated code.
• Sprint to build new product vertical from scratch (e.g., AI bug detection).
• Plan experiments and run A/B tests to improve agent quality with large user bases.

Skills

Great product

Engineering

Design

Creativity

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