Join a small, talent-dense team to design and build tools for professional programmers as a new grad software engineer.
Posted by employer 3 days ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 day ago
Last verified on the company career page 11 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Design and build products and systems
- Ship features and fix bugs
- Drive concrete problems end to end
Must have
- Graduating in Spring 2027
- Built an app, OSS, or shipped product
- Strong engineering and AI tools experience
Nice to have
- Internships or equivalent industry experience
AI in the day-to-day
You blend strong engineering and AI tools as leverage without giving up correctness.
Requirements
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, years of experience, visa sponsorship.
Joblaze summary
In this role, new graduate engineers will engage in hands-on product development, focusing on creating user-friendly tools and systems for programmers. Candidates should possess strong engineering fundamentals and the ability to leverage AI tools while maintaining high standards of correctness. This position is ideal for recent graduates with a background in computer science or related fields, particularly those who have demonstrated their skills through personal projects or internships. The team operates in a flat structure, encouraging ownership and collaboration among its members.
Joblaze insights
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- Cursor has 127 other open roles including GTM Applications Engineer, GTM Strategy & Ops Lead - APJ, RVP, Strategic Sales, HiTech.
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Quick facts
- Is the Software Engineer, New Grad 2027 role remote?
- No — this is an on-site role in San Francisco.
- Where is the role based?
- Cursor is hiring for this position in San Francisco.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AI/ML, Software Engineering.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Cursor targets junior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Software Engineer, New Grad 2027 role at Cursor.
From the original posting
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.
About the Role
We're hiring new grad engineers to join SpaceXAI software engineering teams. You'll own real product work on the surfaces our users live in every day: Grok Bot, Cloud Agents, Cursor and the systems underneath.
You will design, build, and ship delightful and bulletproof products and systems that engineers love to use every day. This role values a strong attention to details, first principles reasoning, and great taste. That means picking up concrete problems, driving them end to end (UI through a bit of backend when needed), and raising the bar on taste and correctness while you move fast.
You'll work alongside a small, talent-dense team with high ownership and little hierarchy. Strong fundamentals matter. So does judgment about when to use AI tools as leverage without giving up correctness.
You may be a fit if:
You're graduating in Spring 2027 (CS, software engineering, computer engineering, or a related technical field).
You've already built something great — an app, OSS, or shipped product we can open and review (required).
You blend strong engineering and AI tools as leverage without giving up correctness.
You learn fast, take ownership, and have already done something meaningfully hard early (internships or equivalent industry experience welcome).
Sample projects include:
Adding a small UI improvement so AI-generated code or PRs are easier to read and review
Turning a teammate’s rough idea into a working prototype over a few days, then iterating based on feedback
Shipping a contained feature (frontend + a bit of backend), then fixing bugs and making it feel smoother after people use it
Applying
If there appears to be a fit, we'll reach out to schedule 2–3 short technicals. After, we'll schedule an onsite in our office, where you'll work on a small project, discuss ideas, and meet the team.
In your application, please share an example of an exceptional technical project or product feature you've built that best demonstrates your technical capabilities (GitHub, live app, OSS, or shipped product).