Software Engineer, Client Infrastructure
Cursor · San Francisco · New York
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At a glance
Highlights
- Build core systems powering desktop experience for millions of developers.
- Eliminate crashes and frame-time issues to ensure near-perfect reliability.
- Design telemetry and tooling to ship client updates safely every day.
Ideal candidate
Truth-seeking, passionate engineer who cares deeply about performance, reliability and developer experience. Thrives in small, fast-moving collaborative teams and loves pushing limits of AI-driven developer tools.
Requirements
- Deep experience in client infrastructure — build systems, performance, distribution, or observability
- Built or contributed to high-performance desktop applications, Electron-based or native
- Care deeply about performance, reliability, and developer experience with eye for elegant systems design
- Thrive in fast-moving, collaborative, product-focused environments
- Excited to push limits of what is possible in AI-driven developer tools
- hiring process
- 2-3 short technical interviews followed by onsite with small project, discussions and team meetings.
Lab profile
About Cursor
Automates coding with AI-powered editor for professional programmers.
What they build
- Cursor AI code editor
- Cursor for Enterprise
Known for
- AI-assisted coding
- Applied ML research
- Developer tools
Key facts
- Founded in 2022
- Headquartered in San Francisco
- Backed by Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz