Cursor
Technical Sourcer
San Francisco
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 35 days ago
GitMachine LearningResearch
About the role
- 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.
Responsibilities
- Own sourcing strategy for engineering and research roles across the stack, systems, ML, infrastructure, security, and beyond
- Build and maintain deep talent maps of the best engineers in our key hiring areas
- Partner with hiring managers and recruiters to understand what we're actually looking for, then go find it
- The first step in our journey is to build the best tool for professional programmers, using a combination of inventive research, design, and engineering.
Requirements
- You have a personal network inside research or open source communities
Nice to have
- Write outreach that engineers actually respond to, specific, credible, and genuinely interesting
- Track pipeline data to continuously sharpen sourcing precision over volume
- Help Cursor show up in the right places - technical communities, conferences, and conversations that matter to the people we want to hire
- 3+ years of eng sourcing or research-focused recruiting experience for technical roles, ideally at a fast-moving startup
- You can read a GitHub profile, skim a research paper, or parse an engineering blog and understand what makes someone exceptional, not just experienced
- You have strong intuitions about where great engineers live online and how to reach them in ways that feel human
Company info
- Our mission is to automate coding.
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