# Engineering Manager, Desktop

**Company:** [Cursor](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/cursor)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Skills:** TypeScript, React, Electron, Node.js, Fullstack, Desktop Applications, Ui/Ux, Performance Optimization, Systems Architecture, Debugging
**Posted:** 2026-05-04

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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

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