# Technical Sourcer

**Company**: Cursor
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://cursor.com/careers/technical-sourcer?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_44034b2d-013

## Description

Cursor is looking for a Technical Sourcer to own sourcing strategy for engineering and research roles across the stack, systems, ML, infrastructure, security, and beyond.

The ideal candidate will have 3+ years of experience in engineering sourcing or research-focused recruiting for technical roles, ideally at a fast-moving startup. They should be able to read a GitHub profile, skim a research paper, or parse an engineering blog and understand what makes someone exceptional. Strong intuitions about where great engineers live online and how to reach them in ways that feel human are also required.

Responsibilities:

- Own sourcing strategy for engineering and research roles across the stack, systems, ML, infrastructure, security, and beyond

- Build and maintain deep talent maps of the best engineers in key hiring areas

- Identify passive candidates through technical communities, papers, open source contributions, and original research

- Write outreach that engineers actually respond to, specific, credible, and genuinely interesting

- Partner with hiring managers and recruiters to understand what we're actually looking for, then go find it

- Track pipeline data to continuously sharpen sourcing precision over volume

- Help Cursor show up in the right places , technical communities, conferences, and conversations that matter to the people we want to hire

Requirements:

- 3+ years of eng sourcing or research-focused recruiting experience for technical roles, ideally at a fast-moving startup

- Ability to read a GitHub profile, skim a research paper, or parse an engineering blog and understand what makes someone exceptional

- Strong intuitions about where great engineers live online and how to reach them in ways that feel human

- Precise operator: organized, data-literate, and good at using signal to cut noise

- Default to curiosity, asking why something matters, not just what it is

- Comfortable operating with high autonomy in an environment that moves fast and changes direction

Bonus points:

- Experience sourcing for AI, compiler, or systems roles

- Built sourcing programs or pipelines from scratch, not just inherited them

- Personal network inside research or open source communities

## Skills

### Required
- sourcing strategy
- talent mapping
- passive candidate identification
- outreach
- pipeline data analysis

### Nice to have
- AI
- compiler
- systems roles
- sourcing program building
- research or open source community networking

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Source: [Apply at cursor.com](https://cursor.com/careers/technical-sourcer?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)