11 months ago
Responsibilities
- Build shared abstractions, build systems, distribution systems, and observability foundations for Cursor’s desktop client.
- Improve client performance and reliability by addressing memory leaks, crashes, and frame-time inconsistencies.
- Design instrumentation and telemetry systems for profiling, structured logging, and performance measurement.
- Partner with product teams to improve release velocity and support daily client updates.
- Evaluate Electron and native approaches for critical code paths and guide architectural tradeoffs.
- Build internal tooling that enables engineers to ship safely and quickly on the client platform.
Requirements
- Deep experience with client infrastructure, including build systems, performance, distribution, or observability.
- Experience building or contributing to high-performance desktop applications using Electron or native technologies.
- Strong focus on performance, reliability, developer experience, and elegant systems design.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-moving, collaborative, product-focused environment.
- Interest in advancing AI-driven developer tools.
Benefits
- The hiring process includes 2–3 short technical interviews followed by an onsite interview at the company office involving a small project, discussions, and meetings with the team.
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.