Cursor

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.

This listing is sourced directly from Cursor's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.