Engineering Manager, Agent & Product Security

Quick Facts

• Role: Engineering Manager, Agent & Product Security

• Location: Onsite in New York or Palo Alto

Description

Lead the security engineering roadmap for autonomous Cursor agents, building the security primitives that move agents from supervised operation to trusted autonomy. Own isolation for running safely inside high-value customer codebases and create the authority/identity infrastructure (scoped permissions, policy enforcement, secure tool execution). Build customer-facing security controls that are usable and strong, with clear security outcome metrics.

Responsibilities

• Define the path from supervised agents to trusted autonomous agents; lead the team building required security primitives

• Engineer isolation for tenancy, workspace, secret, and data protections designed for real adversaries

• Build authority infrastructure for autonomous agents: identity, scoped permissions, policy enforcement, and secure tool execution with verifiable limits

• Create customer-facing security controls that are understandable, usable, and strong; establish crisp success metrics

• Hire, coach, and grow a security engineering team while staying technically close; write and review code as needed

Requirements

• Experience leading engineering teams shipping production systems with high security, reliability, or platform stakes

Benefits

• Annual salary range: $220,000 – $357,000 USD (level and base determined case-by-case)

• Equity

• Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage

• Access to a 401(k)

• Short & long-term disability insurance

• Life insurance

• Various other discounts and perks