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Model Engineer, RL Data

Cursor · Palo Alto, CA

Applied AIonsite$160k–$250k
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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
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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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