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Remote is offered, but Cursor leans in-person and San Francisco
Connect "On location: remote is offered, but Cursor leans in-person and San Francisco" to the decision you would make.
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On location: remote is offered, but Cursor leans in-person and San Francisco. Expect to demonstrate that you can operate with real autonomy and still stay tightly coupled to the team - async clarity, fast escalation, no dropped threads.
“I treat AI agents as a force multiplier for triage - I'll have one cluster a thousand reports and draft repros - but I read every output critically and throw away what's wrong. the impact is real; so is the discipline to not ship hallucinated triage. That judgment is exactly what I'd bring to building Cursor's quality system from the ground up.”
When asked about your background, pick stories that show both halves - a hard root-cause and a tool you built - and frame at least one as building a process from scratch, not maintaining one. Naming the selective bar directly (“I'm drawn to high talent-density teams that refuse to ship sloppy”) signals you understand the cultural dimension Cursor screens for.