Cursor
Engineering Manager, Desktop
San Francisco
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 78 days ago
Full-Stack DevelopmentResearch
About the role
- The Desktop team sits at the center of many of Cursor's most important product investments, especially the cross-cutting features that define how humans and agents work together across environments like local, worktrees, remote ssh, and cloud.
- When developers open Cursor, they expect it to feel instant, reliable, and deeply integrated into their workflow.
- This role is ideal for someone who cares deeply about product quality, technical architecture, developer experience, and leading teams through ambitious, fast-moving roadmaps.
Responsibilities
- Own the execution and quality of the Cursor desktop client across UI, features, and architecture
- Partner closely with product, design, and platform teams to deliver cross-cutting user experiences spanning agents and core app workflows.
- Strong partnership skills across engineering, product, design, and infrastructure/platform teams.
- You care deeply about performance, reliability, and developer experience, and have an eye for elegant systems design.
Requirements
- You have strong software engineering fundamentals and enjoy getting into the details-you can review a PR, debug a memory leak, or evaluate an architectural proposal with equal confidence.
Company info
- You have led engineering teams building high-performance web or desktop apps.
- Strong product instincts and a track record of shipping polished, user-facing software.
- Experience balancing execution speed with long-term technical quality
- You thrive in environments that are fast-moving, collaborative, and product-focused.
This listing is sourced directly from Cursor's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.