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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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