Cursor
Design Engineer
San FranciscofulltimemidAdded 1 month ago
About this role
Join Cursor's founding team as a Design Engineer to create the UI and interactions for an AI-powered code editor. You'll bridge design and engineering, building polished components and prototyping features that make coding automation accessible to professional developers.
What you'll do
- Build production-quality UI components and interactions with pixel-perfect execution
- Rapidly prototype new concepts to validate ideas before full implementation
- Translate designs into code while pushing technical boundaries of the product
- Collaborate with designers and engineers to define product possibilities
- Develop and maintain design systems and component libraries
- Own the quality and polish of UI implementation across the product
What they're looking for
- Front-end engineering (TypeScript, React, SolidJS)
- CSS and animations
- Figma and design tools
- Component-based architecture and design systems
- Rapid prototyping
- UI/UX design sensibility
- Cross-platform app development (nice to have)
- Developer tools experience (nice to have)
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Cursor
Cursor builds an AI-driven code editor used by millions of developers to transform how software is built. The company is hiring for infrastructure engineers, ML systems specialists, enterprise platform builders, security engineers, and customer success roles focused on driving adoption within large organizations.
- Website
- cursor.com
Likely interview questions
- Walk us through a time you shipped a polished product feature. How did you get from 90% to 100% completion, and what details mattered most?
- Tell us about your experience with TypeScript and React. Have you built complex, interactive UI components, and how do you approach performance and animations?