Technical Sourcer

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

Location: In-office, ideally San Francisco or New York.