engineering
Posted Nov 20, 2025Design Engineer
at cursor
San Francisco, United StatesOn-site
Responsibilities
- WHAT YOU'LL DO - Build production-quality UI components and interactions that delight users - Rapidly prototype new concepts and features to validate ideas before full implementation - Bridge the gap between design and engineering – translating designs into code and pushing design through technical innovation - Own the quality of UI implementation across the product, ensuring pixel-perfect execution and smooth interactions - Collaborate with designers and engineers to define what's possible and push the
Requirements
- Our AI code editor and agents are just the beginning – we're solving the hardest engineering and design problems in AI automating coding, and making these capabilities accessible to everyone.
- You'll work directly with the founding team to prototype, build, and polish the experiences that make Cursor magical.
- Experience with Electron, native UI frameworks, or building cross-platform apps - Understanding of code editors, IDEs, or programming environments
Contact
- Cursor is building the future of coding https://cursor.com/future.
Additional details
- 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.
- This role is perfect for someone who thinks like a designer but builds like an engineer – or vice versa.