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title: 'GTM Applications Engineer at Cursor'
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last_seen: '2026-09-15'
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# GTM Applications Engineer at Cursor

- **Company:** Cursor
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cursor/9d7c8f36-eeb7-4e9f-acbe-d959f6280e46

## 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. GTM Applications Engineer SpaceXAI’s go-to-market org is growing fast, and the software that runs it has to keep up. GTM Apps sits inside Revenue Operations and builds the internal products our Sales, Customer Success, Field Engineering, and RevOps teams use every day for account intelligence, forecasting, pricing, and more. We also enable other teams to build apps for themselves via enablement and maintaining shared infrastructure. As a GTM Applications Engineer, you’ll own product surfaces end-to-end by talking to users, shipping full-stack applications, keeping production apps healthy, and raising the bar on reliability and UX. This is product engineering for the people who sell and support the SpaceXAI suite of products. Our team has high leverage, lots of visibility, and we move fast.

## What you'll do

- Design, build, and ship full-stack features for GTM Apps (TypeScript / Next.js and our shared internal stack), from idea through production
- Enable our world-class sales team to exceed their ambitious goals with world-class software
- Own a product surface and drive its roadmap (e.g. account intelligence, pricing, forecasting, our internal data API, etc)
- Partner closely with RevOps, Data Engineering, and field teams to turn messy operational processes into durable software
- Improve the reliability, performance, and user experience for critical software our GTM teams depend on for daily work
- Build and maintain shared infrastructure other GTM builders can use (e.g. APIs, UI libraries, authentication frameworks, etc)
- Triage and fix issues in our app suite and use that feedback as an input signal for your roadmap
- Use AI tooling aggressively in your own workflow and, where it helps users, in the products you ship

## What we're looking for

- You’ve shipped production full-stack products (web apps users rely on every day), not just scripts or dashboards
- You’re strong in TypeScript and modern React / Next.js, and comfortable across the full stack (UI, APIs, data, etc)
- You care about UX and clarity
- You’ve worked closely with business users (Sales, Customer Success, Operations, or similar) and can translate fuzzy requests into software requirements
- You’re comfortable with SQL and have worked with large datasets in a modern warehouse, and you’re a strong partner to data engineers
- You take ownership of the entire SDLC end-to-end with the minimum required process overhead
- Bonus: experience with Salesforce, Databricks, Vercel, Datadog, RevOps tooling, working on an internal platforms team, and using Cursor

## About Cursor

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Cursor is an AI coding agent and software development environment that enables developers to build, test, and ship software using natural-language instructions and autonomous agents.
- **Entity Type**: Private (pending acquisition by SpaceX/xAI)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif, Aman Sanger, Arvid Lunnemark

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Artificial intelligence, developer tools, software development
- **Target customers**: B2B (enterprise, SMB, individual developers); trusted by over half of the Fortune 500
- **Mission/purpose**: To build the future of software development and help engineers "engineer anything"

## Products & Services
- **Cursor (AI Coding Agent)**: The flagship product — an AI-powered code editor and agent that searches codebases, edits files, runs terminal commands, and completes multi-step programming tasks from natural-language instructions. Available as a desktop IDE, web app, mobile app (iOS), and CLI.
- **Bugbot**: A code-review tool integrated with GitHub pull requests that autonomously detects bugs and issues.
- **Composer Models**: A family of proprietary agentic coding models (Composer, Composer 1.5, Composer 2, Composer 2.5) trained with reinforcement learning for long-running coding tasks.
- **Cursor Automations**: Always-on agents that run on schedules or triggers to build, maintain, and fix software.
- **Cloud Agents**: Agents that run in their own cloud environments to build, test, and demo features end-to-end.
- **Graphite**: A separate product acquired by Cursor (formerly a stack-based Git workflow tool).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $29.3 billion (Series D, November 2025); pending acquisition by SpaceX/xAI at $60 billion (announced June 16, 2026)
- **Key Metric**: $3 billion+ Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) as of May 2026
- **Notable Investors**: Accel, Coatue Management, Thrive Capital, OpenAI Startup Fund, Google, Nvidia; angel investors include Nat Friedman (former GitHub CEO) and Arash Ferdowsi (Dropbox co-founder)
- **Growth Signals**: Crossed $100M ARR in Jan 2025, $500M ARR by June 2025, $1B ARR by Nov 2025, and $3B ARR by May 2026. Headcount grew from ~300 (2025) to 579 (mid-2026). Expanding into mobile, Jira integration, and enterprise features.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary coding models (Composer series)** trained with reinforcement learning specifically for software development tasks — a deep technical moat
- **Complete codebase understanding** at any scale, enabling agents to work contextually across large, complex codebases
- **Multi-model flexibility**: Integrates models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, xAI, and their own models, letting users choose the best tool per task
- **Agentic infrastructure**: Agents that run autonomously, in parallel, and across environments (terminal, Slack, GitHub, Jira, cloud)
- **Massive adoption**: Trusted by over half the Fortune 500 and millions of developers — strong network effects and brand lock-in

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling agentic capabilities**: Moving from assisted coding to fully autonomous software development agents
- **Enterprise expansion**: Building admin controls, SSO, compliance features, and usage analytics for large organizations
- **Platform ecosystem**: Expanding into adjacent tools (Jira, Slack, GitHub, mobile) to embed agents everywhere developers work
- **Model research**: Continued investment in training frontier coding models with reinforcement learning and synthetic data
- **Post-acquisition integration with xAI**: Leveraging SpaceX/xAI compute and infrastructure for even larger models

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven research environment**: Cursor describes itself as "an applied research team focused on building the future of software development" — a rare blend of R&D and product engineering
- **Talent density**: The company "obsesses over talent to an unusual degree" and designs itself as "a haven for self-motivated individual contributors"
- **Rapid growth trajectory**: From 0 to $3B ARR in ~4 years — employees work on products used by millions and see massive scale
- **Compensation**: Competitive for AI/engineering talent; top-of-market salaries and equity in a high-valuation private company
- **Work policy**: Mix of in-office (San Francisco, New York) and remote roles; many engineering roles are on-site
- **Engineering culture**: Two-day on-site final interviews with the core team; no AI tools allowed in first-round coding interviews — they value raw problem-solving
- **Team composition**: 579 employees with strong talent density from Stripe, Figma, Notion, Vercel, Graphite, Slack, Rubrik, and Plaid
- **Recent departures to**: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, AWS — alumni are highly sought after

## Sources
1. [cursor.com](https://cursor.com)
2. [cursor.com/careers](https://cursor.com/careers)
3. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/cursorai)
4. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursor_(company))
5. [JobsByCulture](https://jobsbyculture.com/blog/working-at-cursor-2026)

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