Software Engineer, Pretraining Data
Cursor · Palo Alto, CA
Applied AIonsitemid-level$160k–$250k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build data systems behind frontier models' initial pretraining runs.
- Turn raw web, code and multimodal dumps into training-ready datasets.
- Scale web crawling to discover and parse high-quality documents.
What they offer
- Equity
- Medical coverage
- Vision coverage
- Dental coverage
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Short-term disability insurance
- Long-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
Ideal candidate
High-slope, high-ownership engineer with distributed systems experience who loves building reliable data pipelines at scale and is excited by how pretraining data shapes frontier model quality.
Requirements
- Minimum of 3 years of software engineering experience
- Experience building distributed systems and/or large-scale data infrastructure
- remote policy
- onsite
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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