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Engineering Manager, Agent & Product Security
New York +1 · Hybrid · Manager · Full-time · Posted Jul 14, 2026
- Location
- New York
San Francisco
About the job
Leads the security engineering team defining and building the security foundations that make Cursor’s agents and products safe for autonomous work in customer codebases.
What you'll do
- Define security primitives for agent autonomy, including identity, delegated authority, policy enforcement, secure tool execution, and prompt-injection containment.
- Build isolation and customer-facing security controls protecting tenants, workspaces, secrets, and data.
- Hire, coach, and grow the security engineering team while contributing technically and setting product direction.
What they ask for
- Experience leading engineering teams shipping production systems with high security, reliability, or platform stakes.
- Strong product and systems judgment across workflows, architecture, threat models, enforcement, and operational tradeoffs.
- Understanding of application security, authorization, tenancy, identity, secrets, data isolation, and secure-by-default platform design.
- Understanding of AI agents, tool use, authority, prompt injection, exfiltration, and practical mitigations.
AI focus
Develops security models and infrastructure for autonomous AI agents, including agent identity, delegated and standing authority, agent-to-agent trust, oversight, secure tool use, and prompt-injection containment.
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