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CursorCursorSan Francisco, CA

Software Engineer, ML Research

Builds distributed training, inference, and data systems for frontier coding models, working with researchers to enable fast iteration. Requires strong infrastructure background and intuitions about language models.

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About the role

What you might 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 might 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

Skills

Distributed SystemsReinforcement LearningPyTorchTensorFlowKubernetesML InfrastructureData PipelinesLanguage Models

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