# Engineering Manager for Agent & Product Security

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

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## Description

Cursor's agents currently work inside codebases of security-conscious organisations, acting on delegated authority. The goal is to evolve them into autonomous workers that collaborate with humans and other agents over long periods. As Engineering Manager for Agent & Product Security, you'll lead the team that ensures the security and trustworthiness of Cursor's agentic software development.

Responsibilities:

- Define security primitives for agent autonomy and lead the team that builds them.

- Engineer isolation mechanisms for Cursor to safely run inside customers' valuable codebases.

- Develop authority infrastructure for autonomous agents, including identity, scoped permissions, and policy enforcement.

- Create customer-facing security controls that are understandable and usable.

- Hire, coach, and grow a high-performing security engineering team.

Requirements:

- Experience leading engineering teams for high-stakes systems.

- Strong product and systems judgment with a focus on security.

- Understanding of modern application security, authorization, and secure-by-default design.

- Instincts about AI agents and their security implications.

- Ability to operate in ambiguity and set strategy.

- Experience partnering across multiple teams.

## Skills

### Required
- security engineering
- agent autonomy
- authority infrastructure
- secure-by-default design

### Nice to have
- AI agents
- application security
- authorization
- tenancy
- identity

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Source: [Apply at cursor.com](https://cursor.com/careers/engineering-manager-agent-product-security?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)