Software Engineer, Product

SF / NY March 7, 2026 Full Time Likely Ashby Or Custom System

Our mission is to automate coding. The first step in our journey is to build the best tool for professional programmers, using a combination of inventive research, design, and engineering. 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.

About the Role

Product engineers create the software we ship to our users, in particular our editor. As a member of our core product team, you'll join us in inventing a new, better way to build software.

You may be a fit if

You've built a great product.
You blend excellent engineering with a taste for models and design.
You have a propensity for creative ideas and have a knack for making powerful tools without compromising their ease-of-use.

Sample projects include

Inventing new interfaces and UX for reviewing PRs of AI-generated code
Sprinting for two weeks to build a new product vertical from scratch (e.g., AI bug detection)
Running experiments and A/B tests on millions of users to push the frontier of agent quality - ex sub-agents, memories, and PR retrieval

Applying

If there appears to be a fit, we'll reach to schedule 2-3 short technicals. After, we'll schedule an onsite in our office, where you'll work on a small project, discuss ideas, and meet the team.

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How to Get Hired at Cursor

Use Cursor daily before applying — form genuine opinions about its strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities so you can speak authentically about the product in your application and interviews
Build and showcase a project that intersects AI and developer tooling (e.g., a VS Code extension with LLM integration, a code search tool, or an inference optimization benchmark) to create tangible proof of relevant capability

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