Own sourcing strategy for engineering and research roles at a startup focused on automating coding.
Skills & Technologies
Requirements
- Experience
- 3+ years
Joblaze summary
In the role of Technical Sourcer at Cursor, the individual will develop and execute sourcing strategies for engineering and research positions, focusing on identifying passive candidates through various technical channels. Key skills include a strong understanding of technical profiles, data literacy, and the ability to craft engaging outreach messages. This position is ideal for someone with over three years of experience in technical recruiting, particularly in fast-paced startup environments, who thrives on autonomy and curiosity. Cursor's flat organizational structure fosters a collaborative atmosphere where innovative ideas are encouraged.
Joblaze insights
- Listed today on Joblaze — tracked directly from Cursor's career page.
- Cursor has 111 other open roles including HRBP, Core Business, HRBP, GTM, Contract Business Recruiter.
- 270 active security roles on Joblaze right now.
- 93 active infrastructure roles on Joblaze right now.
- 50 active ML roles on Joblaze right now.
Quick facts
- Is the Technical Sourcer role remote?
- No — this is an on-site role in San Francisco, USA.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 3 years of relevant experience for this Technical Sourcer role.
- Where is the role based?
- Cursor is hiring for this position in San Francisco, USA.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Engineering, ML, infrastructure, security, Research.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Cursor targets mid-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Technical Sourcer 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.
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.