Engineering Manager, Desktop
Cursor · San Francisco
About this role
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 You will lead the Desktop team at Cursor, owning the product and engineering experience that millions of developers rely on every day. This team owns the UI, core features, and client-side architecture of the Cursor desktop application, working across product, design, infrastructure, and platforms to deliver a fast, stable, and seamless experience. This is a highly cross-functional 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. Your team makes that possible. You’ll lead a team responsible not just for shipping individual features, but for shaping how these systems come together into a coherent app experience. This role is ideal for someone who cares deeply about product quality, technical architecture, developer experience, and leading teams through ambitious, fast-moving roadmaps. WHAT YOU’LL DO - 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. - Set a high bar for engineering excellence, performance, reliability, and maintainability in a product used daily by millions of developers. - Supporting a team shipping features like async subagents, agent multitasking, a b
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