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Technical Sourcer

People · Full-time · San Francisco; New York

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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, not just inherited them

  • You have a personal network inside research or open source communities

Location

In-office, ideally San Francisco or New York.

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