Cursor
Technology
EngineeringManager,Evals
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“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.
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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