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CursorCursorSan Francisco, CA

Engineering Manager, Desktop

Leads Desktop team owning UI, core features, and client-side architecture for Cursor's desktop app used by millions of developers. Partners cross-functionally to deliver fast, reliable AI-driven developer tools while hiring and mentoring top talent.

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About the role

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
  • Support a team shipping features like async subagents, agent multitasking, a better plan mode, improved browser or computer use, and a strong local<>cloud story
  • Hire and grow the team: sourcing, interviewing, and closing top fullstack talent

You may be a fit if

  • Led engineering teams building high-performance web or desktop apps
  • Strong product instincts and track record of shipping polished, user-facing software
  • Experience balancing execution speed with long-term technical quality
  • Strong partnership skills across engineering, product, design, and infrastructure/platform teams
  • Care deeply about performance, reliability, and developer experience, with eye for elegant systems design
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals; can review PRs, debug memory leaks, evaluate architecture
  • Thrive in fast-moving, collaborative, product-focused environments
  • Make good calls weighing stability, performance, velocity, and UX

Skills

TypeScriptReactElectronNode.jsFullstackDesktop ApplicationsUi/UxPerformance OptimizationSystems ArchitectureDebugging
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