Does Cursor ask for AI skills in its job ads?
Live dataFrom its Ashby job board · Last updated 29 October 2026
Below average
17%of Cursor’s 119 open roles ask the candidate to use AI
- Rank
- #526 of 786
- Open roles
- 119
- Ask for AI
- 20
- As a requirement
- 2%
- Tool named most
Cursor
How many Cursor job ads ask for AI
- 17% of Cursor’s 119 open roles ask the candidate to use AI in the work: 20 job ads, 8 points below the 25% across 1,333 software companies.
- Cursor ranks 526 of 786 companies with 10 or more open roles.
- It asks most in data ads: 2 of 6.
- The AI tool its ads name most is Cursor.
Which Cursor roles ask for AI skills
Share of Cursor’s open roles in each role that ask for AI. Roles with 3 or more open roles.Source: Lemonsignal
What Cursor’s job ads say about AI
“You are fluent in technical workflows, AI tooling, and developer productivity (even if you haven’t been a full‑time engineer).”
“AI-forward: uses modern tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Notion AI) to move faster and produce higher-quality work.”
“You have hands-on technical ability and think in systems: you don't need to be a full-time engineer, but you're fluent in technical workflows and AI tooling, and understand how the pieces connect, where they break, and how to make them reliable at scale.”
How we counted AI skills in Cursor’s job ads
From the 119 open roles on Cursor’s public Ashby job board on 29 October 2026. An ad counts when it asks the person to use AI in their own work. The full method. Work at Cursor and see something wrong? Tell us.