People 3 Full-time 3 San Francisco; New York
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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, not just inherited them
- You have a personal network inside research or open source communities
LocationIn-office, ideally San Francisco or New York.
