About the company
Cursor is the AI code editor. Our mission is to automate coding. We are a small, talent-dense team.
Responsibilities
- Lead discovery with customer engineers to identify the real bottleneck and define clear success metrics.
- Design and build Cursor-powered workflows (e.g., large-scale refactors, migrations, PR review loops, incident → fix pipelines, spec → implementation systems).
- Ship a fast first version in days, then harden it into something reliable over weeks with proper rollout plans, monitoring, and iteration based on real usage.
- Own production quality: tracing, evals, metrics, debugging model behavior, latency/cost tradeoffs, and failure modes.
- Work directly with Staff+/Platform/Eng leaders — going deep in code while also communicating clearly about tradeoffs and results.
- Turn what you build into reusable patterns and push improvements back into the core Cursor product.
Requirements
- Thrive in ambiguity and can turn fuzzy problems into clear scopes and shipped systems.
- Built and owned AI-native workflows in production, not just prototypes, and have debugged real-world model failures.
- Comfortable leading discovery conversations and being accountable for customer outcomes.
- Build end-to-end - if it needs frontend, backend, infra, or prompt iteration, you’ll own it.
- Handled production reliability before (metrics, alerts, safe rollouts, incident response).
- Strong in Python and TypeScript/JavaScript and can ramp quickly on new stacks.