Software Engineer, Model Routing & Inference
Cursor · New York · San Francisco
CHECKED 6H AGO
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At a glance
Highlights
- Build the inference platform powering every AI interaction in the product.
- Own the full inference path for agent sessions, chat and tab completion.
- Design intelligent cross-provider failover to prevent user-visible outages.
Ideal candidate
Truth-seeking, passionate engineer who thrives in small talent-dense teams, loves shipping code and debating ideas, and enjoys weighing latency, cost, and reliability tradeoffs at scale.
Requirements
- Deep experience building high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems, especially in inference serving, traffic routing, or real-time data pipelines
- Comfortable reasoning about cost/performance tradeoffs at scale (GPU utilization, provider economics, capacity planning)
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and enjoy shipping production systems that handle millions of requests
- Make good calls in the gray area weighing reliability, cost, latency, and user experience
- hiring process
- 2-3 short technicals followed by an onsite to work on a small project, discuss ideas and meet the team.
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