7 months ago
Responsibilities
- Lead discovery conversations with customer engineers, identify engineering bottlenecks, and define success metrics.
- Design and build Cursor-powered workflows for refactoring, migrations, pull request review, incident remediation, and specification-to-implementation processes.
- Ship initial solutions quickly and harden them into reliable production systems through rollout plans, monitoring, and usage-based iteration.
- Own production quality, including tracing, evaluations, metrics, model-behavior debugging, latency and cost tradeoffs, and failure-mode management.
- Work directly with Staff+, platform, and engineering leaders while communicating technical tradeoffs and results clearly.
- Convert customer solutions into reusable patterns and improvements for the core Cursor product.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of software development and coding experience with Python and JavaScript/TypeScript.
- At least 2 years of experience in customer-facing roles involving discovery conversations and accountability for customer outcomes.
- Experience building and owning AI-native workflows in production and debugging real-world model failures.
- Ability to turn ambiguous problems into clear scopes and shipped systems.
- Ability to work end-to-end across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and prompt iteration.
- Experience with production reliability, including metrics, alerts, safe rollouts, and incident response.
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About Cursor
Cursor is an AI-powered code editor and coding assistant from Anysphere, built for professional software engineers and enterprise teams. It combines a VS Code–style editor with integrated AI chat, code generation, and repo-aware refactoring, and is sold via individual, team, and enterprise subscriptions. The company also targets sectors like healthcare and state and local education with field engineers who support evaluations and proofs of concept.