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About Cursor
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
Technical Support Engineers are the first line of defense for our users, debugging tricky issues, building automations to streamline workflows, and ensuring every interaction with Cursor is smooth and impactful. You'll partner closely with product and engineering to champion the voice of the customer and shape how AI-powered developer support scales.
What You’ll Do
- Provide in-depth technical support via support tickets and Slack messages, resolving complex user-reported issues and ensuring high-quality customer interactions.
- Debug, reproduce, and troubleshoot software bugs and usability problems.
- Design and build internal tools and automations to scale support operations.
- Represent Anysphere in technical conversations with enterprise users and developers.
- Partner with Product and Engineering to escalate critical issues and feed insights into the roadmap.
- Maintain and expand user-facing documentation and internal knowledge bases to empower both customers and teammates.
You may be a fit if
- Experience in technical support, software engineering, or a related technical role.
- Strong understanding of software development workflows; experience with IDEs, LLMs, and building with AI.
- Strong debugging skills and a passion for digging deep into technical problems.
- Clear, concise communication skills to explain complex concepts to technical and non‑technical audiences.
- Self-starter with curiosity, creativity, and a bias for action.
Key skills/competency
- Technical Support
- Software Engineering
- Debugging
- Customer Support
- Problem-Solving
- Communication
- AI
- LLMs
- Documentation
- Troubleshooting
How to Get Hired at Cursor
- Tailor your resume: Highlight your technical support, software engineering, debugging, and AI/LLM experience.
- Showcase your passion: Emphasize your curiosity, creativity, and bias for action in your application.
- Prepare for technical questions: Be ready to discuss your debugging process and experience with IDEs and LLMs.
- Demonstrate communication skills: Practice explaining complex technical concepts clearly and concisely.
- Research Cursor's mission: Understand their goal of automating coding and their flat organizational structure.
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