--- title: 'Software Engineer, Grok Connectors at Cursor' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/software-engineer-grok-connectors-cursor-palo-alto-pv3ppqtwpy7r' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-13' --- # Software Engineer, Grok Connectors at Cursor - **Company:** Cursor - **Location:** Palo Alto, CA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-10-09 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-13 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cursor/5afc044a-00ed-4392-8759-59c7effe179d ## 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 a Product Engineer on the Grok Connectors team at SpaceXAI, you'll build the integrations that let Grok, Cursor and Grok Bot do real work inside the tools people use every day: Gmail, Outlook, Google Calendar and Drive, Microsoft Teams, OneDrive and SharePoint, GitHub, Slack, finance accounts, and a fast-growing marketplace of third-party MCP plugins. You'll architect, implement, and deploy features end to end, from OAuth sign-in and token handling, to tool schemas and reliability across hundreds of millions of tool calls, to the cards and approval flows users see on web, desktop, and mobile. You'll work directly with enterprise customers and partners to ship connectors that large organizations can trust. You may be a fit if - You have an entrepreneurial spirit and love creating outsized business impact. - You want AI agents to be genuinely useful, by connecting them to real data and real actions safely. - You have deep, practical knowledge of OAuth 2.0 and OIDC and of large provider APIs like Google Workspace and Microsoft Graph, or you're excited to become the expert. - You care about reliability: concurrency, retries, rate limits, and observability. You fix root causes, not symptoms. - You let data decide what to work on. You size user impact from logs and metrics, and you measure error rates before and after every fix. - You're strong in TypeScript and comfortable shipping across backend services and client UI in a large codebase. - You enjoy working with customers, partners, QA, and support, and can answer a security review question as clearly as you can fix a bug. - Bonus: experience with the MCP protocol, Rust, Kubernetes and multi-cloud deployments, enterprise security and compliance (ZDR, audit logs, Conditional Access), or building LLM agents for automation. Sample projects include - Building an automated triage system that pulls user reports from feedback channels, groups them by root cause with user-impact estimates, files issues, and starts a first-pass coding agent on each fix - Redesigning OAuth token refresh so concurrent requests never burn a single-use refresh token and mark a working connector as disconnected - Cutting hundreds of thousands of daily tool-call errors by generating tool definitions from vendors' published API specs, fixing argument mapping, and adding batch tools - Shipping Gmail and Outlook draft, reply, and attachment flows, with approval cards so an agent never sends an email without the user's sign-off - Launching new partner connectors, from debugging a partner's OAuth metadata to rollout and adoption metrics - Making connectors work for enterprise and single-tenant deployments: custom certificate authorities, Entra Conditional Access, admin controls, and compliance reviews with large financial institutions Applying If there appears to be a fit, we'll reach out to schedule 2-3 short technicals. After, we'll schedule an onsite in our office, where you'll work on a small project, discuss ideas, and meet the team. ## 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. 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