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Software Engineer, Model Routing & Inference

Cursor · New York · San Francisco

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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
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