Technical Sourcer
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. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Own sourcing strategy for engineering and research roles across the stack, systems, ML, infrastructure, security, and beyond - Build and maintain deep talent maps of the best engineers in our key hiring areas - Find people who aren't looking: identify passive candidates through technical communities, papers, open source contributions, and original research - Write outreach that engineers actually respond to, specific, credible, and genuinely interesting - Partner with hiring managers and recruiters to understand what we're actually looking for, then go find it - Track pipeline data to continuously sharpen sourcing precision over volume - Help Cursor show up in the right places - technical communities, conferences, and conversations that matter to the people we want to hire WHO YOU ARE - 3+ years of eng sourcing or research-focused recruiting experience for technical roles, ideally at a fast-moving startup - You can read a GitHub profile, skim a research paper, or parse an engineering blog and understand what makes someone exceptional, not just experienced - You have strong intuitions about where great engineers live online and how to reach them in ways that feel human - You're a precise operator: organized, data-literate, and good at using signal to cut noise - You default to curiosity. You ask why something matters, not just what it is - Comfortable operating with high autonomy in an environment that moves fast and changes direction BONUS POINTS - Experience sourcing for AI, compiler, or systems roles - You've built sourcing programs or pipelines from scratch,
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Cursor is an AI editor and coding agent. Describe what you want to build or change in natural language and Cursor will write the code for you.
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