Cursor to Hire 200 in Asia-Pacific After $60 Billion SpaceX Deal

4 articles · Updated · Business Insider · May 15

Cursor plans to add 200 employees across Singapore, Japan, Sydney, Melbourne and India over the next six months, focusing on go-to-market, field engineering and AI deployment roles.
The expansion follows SpaceX's late-April agreement giving it the right to acquire Cursor for $60 billion or pay $10 billion for its work, a deal tied to scaling the startup's AI coding product Composer.
London is set to open in July, with smaller European offices planned, while Simon Green—formerly of Palo Alto Networks—has already launched Cursor's Singapore office.
Cursor now has about 800 employees in San Francisco and New York and roughly 90 open roles listed globally, as it broadens beyond major US hubs.
Its customer roster already includes Stripe, Coinbase, Salesforce, Neuralink and Nvidia, underscoring rising enterprise demand for AI coding tools.

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