Software Engineer (AI Code Editor) · Anysphere (Cursor)

Cursor is the AI-native code editor that grew from a few thousand users to one of the highest-revenue developer-tools companies in under two years. Engineering hires are extremely selective — small team, very high product velocity, in-person only. What you'd actually work on: editor performance (it's a fork of VS Code with very heavy AI integration), agent orchestration (Composer, the multi-file edit flow), the diff/merge UX that makes AI edits acceptable to professional engineers, or the inference-serving layer that handles trillions of tokens monthly. Honest fit signals: — You ship fast and don't need a roadmap document handed to you. Cursor engineers are expected to identify their own highest-leverage work and defend the choice to the leadership team weekly. — You're a power user of AI coding tools (ideally Cursor itself) and can articulate where the product is good vs where it falls down. — SF-resident. Cursor is remote-hostile on principle, not as policy theater. Compensation reflects that. What's not a fit: anyone who wants stable hours, anyone who isn't already fluent with React + TypeScript + low-level perf debugging, or anyone looking to learn AI on the job — the bar assumes you already use it daily.