Software Engineer, Model Lifecycle and Signals
Cursor · New York · San Francisco
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At a glance
Highlights
- Own bridge between frontier models and user-facing product at massive scale.
- Build model router balancing quality, speed, and cost at massive scale.
- Ship frontier models to users day one and retire old ones seamlessly.
Ideal candidate
End-to-end builder with strong product taste and deep curiosity about model behavior who turns ambiguous quality questions into metrics and ships reliable systems at scale.
Requirements
- Exceptional engineer with track record shipping production systems people rely on
- Own problems end-to-end and automate painful processes rather than repeat them
- Built and operated evaluation, measurement, or model serving systems
- Turn ambiguous quality questions into concrete metrics, pipelines, and decisions
- Fluent with data and able to collaborate with data scientists and researchers
- Strong taste and curiosity about model and agent behavior
- hiring process
- 2-3 short technicals followed by onsite with small project, idea discussions, and team meetings.
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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