Founding Technical Program Manager

Role

Drive execution excellence across high-impact technical initiatives at Cursor. As our founding TPM, you'll serve as the operational backbone that enables our engineering teams to ship faster while maintaining quality and coordination as we scale.

You might be a fit if...

• You thrive in ambiguity and create structure from chaos.

• You're an exceptional collaborator who builds trust instantly across all levels.

• You have deep technical fluency and can engage meaningfully with ML and infrastructure teams.

• You get energized by high-impact, unglamorous projects that move the company forward.

• A 4-hour deadline gets you energized, not anxious

Sample projects include:

• Scaling our client release process to support rapid shipping velocity

• Running our incident review program to drive reliability improvements

• Launching new AI models to production (performance optimization, supply chain coordination, A/B testing)

• Jumping on critical fires and figuring out how to resolve them quickly

About

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.

We're a group of engineers and scientists who've built beloved products, created large OSS projects, started at-scale businesses, won olympiad medals, and published significant research (e.g. tmm1, ian, luke, phil, federico, aman, sualeh).

Our organization is very flat, and our team is small and talent dense. We particularly like people who are truthseeking, passionate, and creative. We enjoy spirited debate, crazy ideas, and shipping code.

We're in-person with cozy offices in North Beach, San Francisco and Manhattan, New York, replete with well-stocked libraries. Our investors include Andreessen Horowitz, OpenAI, Jeff Dean, John Schulman, and the founders of Stripe and Github.

Applying

If there appears to be a fit, we'll reach out to schedule a few conversations. After, we'll schedule an onsite in our office, where you'll work on a small project, discuss ideas, and meet the team.