Cursor

Technology

EngineeringManager,Evals

$230–330k ~AI est. San Francisco, California, United States FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Engineering Manager, Evals at Cursor. Skills: Engineering leadership, Evaluation systems, Agent quality. Set eval roadmap. Lead engineering team”

What You'll Achieve.

Make quality measurable; Make quality comparable; Make quality easy to improve

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Root cause analysis

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

People leadership and coaching skills, Experience building and operating evaluation systems

Nice to Have

Experience with AI evals, Experience with experimentation platforms, Experience with ranking/relevance, Experience with search quality, Experience with reliability instrumentation

What You'll Do.

Lead engineering team

Grow engineering team

Build developer tools

Define quality signals

Turn regressions into guardrails

Integrate evals into decision-making

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Align research; Align product; Align data; Align infrastructure; Collaborate with data scientists; Collaborate with researchers

Process & Methodology

Roadmap planning

Full Job Description

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 As an Engineering Manager on the Evals team at Cursor, you’ll lead the group responsible for creating high-signal evaluation datasets for coding agents and building the tools engineers use to write and run them. The team also owns online evaluation systems that track agent quality in production, and the close integration between online and offline evaluations. The evaluation systems that this team builds, including CursorBench https://cursor.com/blog/cursorbench, are critical in the development of our coding models and the quality of our Cursor agents https://cursor.com/blog/continually-improving-agent-harness. Your impact will compound across every Cursor product and every Cursor model by making quality measurable, comparable, and easy to improve. WHAT YOU’LL DO - Set the eval roadmap end-to-end—what we measure, why it matters, and how signals turn into shipping + training decisions. - Lead and grow a high-impact team of engineers and researchers building eval datasets and developer-friendly tools to write and run evals. - Guide the next generation of CursorBench https://cursor.com/blog/cursorbench so it continues to reflect real developer workflows at Cursor, and expand it with new evals that measure other properties developers value. - Define crisp online quality signals and turn regressions into robust guardrails. - Integrate evals into decision-making cadence for launches, deploys, and model training loops. YOU MAY BE A FIT IF - You’ve led engineering teams shipping production systems and have strong people leadership and coaching skills. - You can align rese

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