Design Engineer

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. Cursor is building the future of coding https://cursor.com/future. 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. ABOUT THE ROLE We're looking for a design engineer who lives at the intersection of design and code. You'll work directly with the founding team to prototype, build, and polish the experiences that make Cursor magical. This role is perfect for someone who thinks like a designer but builds like an engineer – or vice versa. 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 interac...