Is Cursor Hiring? 122 Open Jobs, All Now Under SpaceX (Nov. 3, 2026)
Yes. On November 3, 2026, Cursor’s own career board listed 122 open jobs, and every one of the 122 opens with a paragraph about SpaceX, which completed its purchase of Cursor’s parent company on August 14, 2026. 81 of the jobs are based in the U.S., and none of the 122 shows a salary.
That is the short answer. The part most job sites miss is what kind of work is open.
Only 27 of the 122 jobs are engineering jobs. 89 are in sales, solutions, marketing and customer work. If you came looking for a software engineering seat at the company that makes the AI code editor, the door is narrower than the headline count suggests.
What we read for this report
- Cursor’s board: every listed job in Cursor’s public Ashby job feed, read on November 3, 2026. The feed returned 122 jobs, the careers page at cursor.com/careers showed the same 122, and our daily scan counted 122.
- Posting text: we searched the full text of all 122 postings for the words SpaceX, SpaceXAI, Anysphere, salary, equity and remote, and read the matching sentences by eye.
- History: our daily reads of the same feed since August 22, 2026. A “new” job means a job link we had not seen before, not a new hire.
- The deal: SpaceX’s two Form 8-K filings on SEC EDGAR, dated June 16 and August 14, 2026, read in full on November 3, 2026.
- Not counted: jobs filled without a posting and jobs that appear only on third-party sites. Google DeepMind’s U.S. board, one of the 20 boards we track, returned an error and is left out of the weekly totals.
Correction, November 3, 2026: the first version of this page linked new jobs to Cursor’s pages on jobs.ashbyhq.com, which return “not found.” The links now go to the same jobs on cursor.com/careers.
Written and checked by Prof. H. An AI assistant helped draft this piece and run the page reads; every quote was read on the source’s own page on November 3, 2026.
Is Cursor hiring right now?
Cursor had 122 open jobs on its own Ashby board on November 3, 2026, down from a peak of 137 on October 10 but up from 113 on August 22, 2026, and all 122 are full-time. The board grew through September and early October, then lost 15 jobs between October 10 and today.
The board also turns over. Since August 22, we have seen 182 different Cursor job links. 60 of them have since closed, about one in three.
67 of today’s 122 jobs were first posted on or after August 14, 2026, the day the SpaceX purchase closed. The other 55 were posted before it and are still open.
Our daily numbers for Cursor and 18 other AI employers live on the AI jobs tracker. To scroll the actual roles, browse every open role and apply on the employer’s site from our jobs board.
Why does every Cursor job posting start with SpaceX?
All 122 Cursor postings we read on November 3, 2026 open with the same paragraph about SpaceX, because SpaceX now owns Cursor’s parent company, Anysphere, Inc. SpaceX’s Form 8-K filed on August 14, 2026 says the merger became effective that day.
The filing says the deal was based on “an implied equity value of Cursor of $60.0 billion,” paid in SpaceX Class A stock, with Cursor surviving “as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company.” The merger agreement itself was signed on June 16, 2026, according to SpaceX’s earlier 8-K from that date.
The posting text shows the merge in other ways too. The second paragraph of every posting describes “SpaceXSI,” which it says is building Grok models and apps. 53 of the 122 postings name SpaceXAI as the team you would join. Only 3 still use the name Anysphere, and 73 mention Cursor by name in the job text.
One thing we could not verify: when the SpaceX paragraph first appeared. Our daily scan stores titles, places and pay, not the full posting text, so we cannot date the change. We can only say it was on all 122 on November 3.
What jobs did Cursor add and close this week?
Between October 27 and November 3, 2026, six new job links appeared on Cursor’s board and eight closed, so the total slipped from 124 to 122. Five of the six new jobs are in deployment, partnerships or operations; one is an engineering job.
| New job (Oct. 27 to 30) | Where | Setting |
|---|---|---|
| Regional Director, Forward Deployed Engineering, Public Sector | Washington, D.C. | On-site |
| Data Engineer, Marketing | San Francisco | On-site |
| Customer Success Strategy and Operations Manager | San Francisco | On-site |
| Partner Account Manager | Singapore | On-site |
| Solutions Architect | Australia | Remote |
| AI Deployment Manager | Australia | Remote |
Three of the eight that closed were San Francisco engineering jobs: Software Engineer, Generalist, open since July 29, 2025, and Software Engineer jobs in ML Research and ML Infrastructure, both open since January 27, 2026. The other five were sales, data, operations, field and partnership jobs.
A closed link can mean a hire, a pause or a rewrite, and the board does not say which. Our piece on what it means when a job posting is taken down walks through the possibilities, and why companies repost the same job explains why a role can come back under a new link.
Is Cursor still hiring software engineers?
Yes, but only 27 of Cursor’s 122 open jobs on November 3, 2026 were engineering jobs, down from 37 on October 20, and all 27 are based in the U.S. Cursor’s board lists 31 Sales jobs and 26 Solutions jobs, so engineering ranks second, behind Sales and just one ahead of Solutions.
Where the engineering seats sit has shifted. Seven of the 27 are in Palo Alto, California, a place that did not appear on the board when we first read it on August 22. All seven were first posted between August 24 and October 20, 2026, after the SpaceX deal closed.
Those Palo Alto jobs lean toward model training: pretraining data, synthetic data, reinforcement-learning data and environments, an ML platform and research tooling. One, Software Engineer, Grok Connectors, says the team builds integrations “that let Grok, Cursor and Grok Bot do real work inside the tools people use every day.”
Expect to go in person. 26 of the 27 engineering jobs are tagged on-site or hybrid, and 21 postings across the board say that after “2–3 short technicals,” “we’ll schedule an onsite in our office.” The ML Platform posting describes “cozy offices in North Beach, San Francisco, Palo Alto, and Manhattan, New York.”
If you are not an engineer, the larger share of the board is the opening. Field engineers, solutions architects and AI deployment managers are technical roles that sit with customers; our guide to how much forward deployed engineers make and our list of AI jobs that don’t require coding cover that side of the market.
Does Cursor hire remote workers?
Yes, mostly for customer-facing roles: on November 3, 2026, 46 of Cursor’s 122 jobs were tagged remote, and 45 of those 46 were outside engineering. Only one engineering job, Software Engineer, Billing, was open as remote.
Of the 46 remote jobs, 20 have a U.S. address. The rest are tied to a country: 7 in Singapore, 7 in Japan, 6 in Australia, 2 in the U.K., 1 in Germany, 1 in the Philippines and 2 with no country given. Solutions had 17 remote jobs and Sales had 15.
Remote here does not mean anywhere. A remote job tagged Japan or Australia is meant for someone living there, and many sales roles cover a named territory or industry, such as healthcare or federal agencies. Our guide to why remote jobs have location requirements explains the pattern, and AI companies hiring remote workers compares Cursor’s peers.
How much does Cursor pay?
Cursor’s job postings do not say: on November 3, 2026, 0 of its 122 open jobs printed a pay range, and the job feed behind its board marked every one of the 122 as not displaying compensation. That has held on every day we have read the board since August 22, 2026.
It stands out even inside the same company family. xAI, which SpaceX also owns, showed a range on 81 of its 310 open jobs on November 3. OpenAI showed one on 611 of 805 and Anthropic on 520 of 676.
We also searched the full text of all 122 postings for equity, stock options and RSUs and found no mention of them as pay. The only dollar figures in the text describe customer deal sizes, not salaries. So what a new Cursor offer contains, cash or SpaceX stock, is not something the postings tell you, and we did not verify it.
If an application asks for your number first, our guide to what to put for desired salary on a job application helps. For context on why some employers leave pay out, see why job postings don’t show salary, and for peer pay, which AI company pays the most.
Is there a Cursor new grad job for 2027?
Yes, one: Software Engineer, New Grad 2027, first posted September 8, 2026, on-site in San Francisco, and still open on November 3, 2026. We found no internship postings on Cursor’s board that day.
The posting asks for people graduating in spring 2027 in computer science or a related field. Its strictest line is that you have “already built something great”, an app, open-source work or shipped product they can open, and the word “required” is attached. It also lists Grok Bot, Cloud Agents and Cursor as the products a new grad would work on.
For timing across the industry, read when summer 2027 internships open and how much software engineering interns make. Our entry-level AI jobs roundup lists other early-career doors.
How do you apply to Cursor safely after the SpaceX deal?
Apply only through cursor.com/careers, which listed all 122 open jobs on November 3, 2026, each on its own page with an apply button. The SpaceX paragraph at the top is part of the real posting, so its presence is not a warning sign by itself.
One trap: links to Cursor jobs on jobs.ashbyhq.com, the address many job sites copy, returned “not found” when we opened them on November 3, even though the feed behind them was live. If a link like that is all you have, search the job title on cursor.com/careers instead.
Before you send anything, three checks from our own reading of the board:
- Read the location fields, not just the title. 48 of the 122 jobs list more than one place, and New York is the most common second choice, on 30 of them.
- Read the work-setting tag against the text. 6 postings have no on-site, hybrid or remote tag at all.
- Check the date. The oldest open job, Software Engineer, Enterprise, was first posted on July 29, 2025. Our guide to whether to apply to old job postings covers listings that old.
To hear about new Cursor roles without checking daily, set up a company alert with our guide to job alerts for specific companies. For background on the deal itself, Forbes’ short report is below.
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Which AI job boards moved between October 27 and November 3?
Across the 19 AI company boards we could read, open jobs rose from 3,795 on October 27 to 3,818 on November 3, 2026, a gain of 23, while 284 links appeared and 261 closed. Cursor’s drop of 2 was one of seven declines.
OpenAI and Agility Robotics each added 9 jobs, and Sierra added 8. Nuro fell by 4, and 1X, Anthropic and Mercor each fell by 3. Our recent reads of Perplexity, Anthropic, OpenAI and Scale AI go deeper on each board, and which AI companies are hiring right now ranks them all.
Cursor jobs and the SpaceX deal: what applicants ask
Is Cursor still hiring in 2026?
Yes. On November 3, 2026, Cursor’s own Ashby board listed 122 open full-time jobs, up from 113 on August 22 but down from a peak of 137 on October 10, 2026.
Is Cursor owned by SpaceX now?
Yes. SpaceX’s Form 8-K says its merger with Anysphere, Inc., the company behind Cursor, became effective on August 14, 2026, at an implied equity value of $60.0 billion, with Cursor kept as a wholly owned subsidiary.
Does Cursor hire remote workers?
Mostly for customer-facing roles. On November 3, 2026, 46 of 122 jobs were tagged remote, 20 of them in the U.S., and only one of the 46 was an engineering job.
Does Cursor post salary ranges?
No. On November 3, 2026, none of its 122 postings showed a pay range, and the job feed marked all 122 as not displaying compensation. xAI, also owned by SpaceX, showed a range on 81 of 310 jobs.
Does Cursor hire new grads?
Yes, through one posting. Software Engineer, New Grad 2027, posted September 8, 2026, is on-site in San Francisco for spring 2027 graduates who have already built something reviewers can open. We found no internships.
Sources
- Cursor careers page, cursor.com/careers, and Cursor’s public Ashby posting feed behind it, both read November 3, 2026. Daily reads of the same feed since August 22, 2026.
- Space Exploration Technologies Corp., Form 8-K filed August 14, 2026 (completion of the Anysphere merger) and Form 8-K filed June 16, 2026 (merger agreement), SEC EDGAR, both read November 3, 2026.
- Weekly comparison: our reads of 19 AI company boards on October 27 and November 3, 2026; the full list is on the AI jobs tracker.
- Videos: Bloomberg Television and Forbes, both published June 16, 2026, checked November 3, 2026.
- Images: SpaceX Headquarters, Hawthorne (SpaceX, CC0), Cursor screenshot (Newmcpe, CC BY 4.0), SpaceX Starbase launch site, early 2026 (NOAA, public domain); featured image, Thomas Anshutz, The Ironworkers’ Noontime, 1880, de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, public domain; all via Wikimedia Commons, read November 3, 2026.
Next check: Tuesday, November 10, 2026. We will see whether Cursor’s engineering count keeps falling below 27 and whether any posting starts to show a pay range.
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