Engineering Manager, Agent & Product Security

The role

This person will lead a security engineering team to build security primitives for autonomous agents. They will engineer isolation, authority infrastructure, and customer-facing security controls for Cursor's agents.

What you will do

• Chart the path from supervised agents to trusted autonomous ones
• Define the security primitives that enable agent autonomy and lead the team that builds them
• Engineer isolation including tenancy, workspace, secret, and data protections
• Build authority infrastructure including identity, scoped permissions, policy enforcement, and secure tool execution
• Build customer-facing security controls
• Hire, coach, and grow a high-performing security engineering team
• Write and review code where useful

Required qualifications

• Experience leading engineering teams that ship production systems with high security, reliability, or platform stakes
• Onsite role based in New York or Palo Alto

Nice to have

• Wants a problem space where much of the answer isn't written down yet
• Experience leading engineering teams shipping production systems with high security, reliability, or platform stakes
• Strong product and systems judgment
• Understand modern application security, authorization, tenancy, identity, secrets, data isolation, and secure-by-default platform design
• Good instincts about AI agents
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity
• Able to partner well across product, infrastructure, ML, and customer-facing teams

Benefits

• Equity
• Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
• Access to a 401(k) retirement plan
• Short & long-term disability insurance
• Life insurance
• Various other discounts and perks

About the company

SpaceXSI is building Super Intelligence to help humanity understand the universe. Their teams are building the full Super Intelligence stack, from Colossus supercomputers to Grok models and applications.