Cursor, the AI coding startup that recently inked a big SpaceX deal, is gearing up for an Asia-Pacific hiring spree.
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In the next six months, the company plans to hire 200 employees in Singapore, Japan, Sydney, Melbourne, and India, Nick Miller, a field engineer involved with Cursor’s expansion, told Business Insider.
The San Francisco-based company is largely focused on adding staff in roles that get its product into customers’ hands: go-to-market jobs, field engineers, and AI deployment engineers.
Cursor is also opening a London office in July, with plans for smaller offices across European cities, Miller said.
Simon Green, a longtime APAC tech executive who most recently worked at Palo Alto Networks, opened Cursor’s Singapore office earlier this month. The company’s second Singapore hire will be a recruiter, Miller said, adding that candidates will also interview with the US.
The company’s website lists about 90 open roles in Australia, New York, Berlin, London, and the Netherlands.
Cursor has about 800 employees in San Francisco and New York.
In late April, Elon Musk’s SpaceX announced a deal with Cursor, giving it the right to acquire the AI coding startup for $60 billion or pay $10 billion for Cursor’s work if it’s not acquired.
“Excited to partner with the SpaceX team to scale up Composer. A meaningful step on our path to build the best place to code with AI,” said Cursor’s cofounder and CEO, Michael Truell.
Cursor’s public client list includes Stripe, Coinbase, Discord, Salesforce, Neuralink, and Nvidia.
Nvidia, which invested in Cursor’s parent company, uses the platform across its engineering and chip design teams, CEO Jensen Huang said in October.
“We now have AIs for all of our engineers,” he said. “Productivity gains, the work that we do is so much better.”
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