Role at a glance
- Salary
- Not Disclosed
- Location
- San Francisco, United States New York, United States
- Work arrangement
- On-site
- Employment
- Full-time
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Role Summary
Cursor is building frontier coding agents and scaling reinforcement learning on real user data. The Research Engineer will build the training, inference, and data systems behind Cursor's frontier coding models while working directly with researchers to make progress repeatable and iteration fast.
What You'll Do
- Build distributed training, inference, and reinforcement learning infrastructure
- Write libraries to simplify large-scale data jobs for researchers
- Architect systems that turn Cursor user data into effective training data
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You may be a fit if you have a strong infrastructure/distributed systems background, are able to architect and ship end-to-end with high ownership, have strong intuitions about how language models work, and are excited to learn more about ML.
Required
- Strong infrastructure/distributed systems background
- Ability to architect and ship end-to-end with high ownership
- Strong intuitions about how language models work
Preferred
- Excited to learn more about ML
Original job description
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Original job description
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Our mission is to automate coding. The first step in our journey is to build the best tool for professional programmers, using a combination of inventive research, design, and engineering. Our organization is very flat, and our team is small and talent dense. We particularly like people who are truth-seeking, passionate, and creative. We enjoy spirited debate, crazy ideas, and shipping code.
Research Engineer
Cursor is building the future of coding. We train frontier coding agents and scale RL on real user data to make them increasingly effective.
About the role
We’re looking for Research Engineers to build the training, inference, and data systems behind our frontier coding models. You’ll work directly with researchers to make progress repeatable and iteration fast.
What you’ll do
Build our distributed training, inference, and RL infrastructure
Write libraries to simplify how researchers do large-scale data jobs
Architect the systems that turn Cursor user data into effective training data
You may be a fit if
You have a strong infrastructure/distributed systems background
You are able to architect and ship end-to-end with high ownership
You have strong intuitions about how language models work
You’re excited to learn more about ML
#LI-DNI
About the company
Cursor
Startup
Cursor is an innovative technology company specializing in software development and digital solutions tailored for businesses of all sizes. With a focus on enhancing user experience and operational efficiency, Cursor offers a range of products, including custom applications, cloud services, and data analytics tools. The company prides itself on its collaborative approach, working closely with clients to understand their unique needs and deliver effective solutions. Committed to driving digital transformation, Cursor strives to empower organizations through cutting-edge technology and exceptional service.
Cursor is an innovative technology company specializing in software development and digital solutions tailored for businesses of all sizes. With a focus on enhancing user experience and operational efficiency, Cursor offers a range of products, including custom applications, cloud services, and data analytics tools. The company prides itself on its collaborative approach, working closely with clients to understand their unique needs and deliver effective solutions. Committed to driving digital transformation, Cursor strives to empower organizations through cutting-edge technology and exceptional service.