Research Scientist
Cursor · San Francisco · New York
CHECKED 6H AGO
Applied AIonsite
At a glance
Highlights
- Build frontier coding agents trained with RL on real user data.
- Own ambiguous research end-to-end from hypothesis to shipped model.
- Advance RL for longer-horizon coding tasks with less compute.
Ideal candidate
Deep RL researcher and strong engineer who thrives with autonomy on ambiguous problems. Truth-seeking, data-obsessed and passionate about understanding the science and shipping it into real coding models.
Requirements
- Deep background in RL and strong machine learning fundamentals
- Excellent programmer and software engineer
- Can handle ambiguous research tasks with little guidance
- Cares about data quality and can dive into data when appropriate
- Truth-seeking, focused on learning the science over proving ideas correct
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