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Software Engineer, ML Research

Cursor · Series C · Website

Role Details

Location
San Francisco
Salary (est. USD)
~$100K - $160K (est. USD)

Estimated based on role seniority, company stage (Series C), and industry benchmarks. Actual compensation may vary.

How is this calculated?
Seniority band Mid-level
Base range $100K – $160K

Based on Web3 & AI industry compensation data. Seniority is inferred from role title keywords. Company stage affects ranges: early-stage (−15%), late-stage/public (+10%).

Department
ML Research
Type
Full-time
Vertical
AI
Posted
1 week ago

Job Description

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 Cursor

AI-powered code editor built on frontier language models.

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