Model Engineer, RL Data
Cursor · Palo Alto, CA
Applied AIonsite$160k–$250k
At a glance
Highlights
- Train frontier coding agents and scale RL on real user data.
- Push small experiments to frontier-scale training runs.
- Help build Super Intelligence to understand the universe.
What they offer
- equity
- medical coverage
- vision coverage
- dental coverage
- 401(k) retirement plan
- short-term disability insurance
- long-term disability insurance
- life insurance
Ideal candidate
Truth-seeking researcher who owns ambiguous problems end-to-end and obsesses over data quality. You thrive in small teams turning rigorous experiments into real gains in coding agents.
Requirements
- Experience writing production-quality code in Python, PyTorch, JAX, Rust, or C++
- Able to handle ambiguous research tasks and own a research direction end to end
- Experience with RL algorithms for language models, scaling laws, or building RL environments and evals
- Experience with distributed training at scale
- MS or PhD in CS, ML, math, physics or related field, or equivalent research experience
- remote policy
- onsite
Lab profile
About Cursor
Automates coding with AI-powered editor for professional programmers.
What they build
- Cursor AI code editor
- Cursor for Enterprise
Known for
- AI-assisted coding
- Applied ML research
- Developer tools
Key facts
- Founded in 2022
- Headquartered in San Francisco
- Backed by Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz
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