How to get in · ~$10B
Cursor (Anysphere)
The AI editor everyone uses, hiring the power users who push it furthest.
The door
Field Engineer · Forward Deployed
- · Field and forward deployed engineers
- · Developer relations
- · Product engineers with dev-tool obsession
The bar
Elite empathy for developer workflow plus live-demo confidence. They hire people who already bend the tool further than the team expected.
Who actually gets in
pattern 01
Power users who publish workflows others adopt
pattern 02
Builders who ship real products with agentic coding and document the method
pattern 03
People who demo live without a net
Skills that matter here
Each links to the live demand board with the top certification per skill.
The first-principles path
01
Pick the door
Not a job title, a door: the role archetype that hires proof over pedigree. It is listed on every page below.
02
Study who gets in
Each company selects on a pattern. Read it. Becoming the pattern beats persuading the recruiter.
03
Build the artifact
One purpose-built project on their platform, deployed, demoable in one link. The spec is on each page.
04
Publish and route it
Post it publicly and tag the team, then get it to a named human: a warm intro beats the portal by an order of magnitude.
05
Apply with proof attached
Now the application is a formality confirming what the team already saw.
Your artifact for Cursor (Anysphere)
A filmed impossible workflow: a real product built end to end with agentic coding, with the technique documented so their team learns something from it.