Software Engineer, RL Data
Cursor · San Francisco
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At a glance
Highlights
- Turn capability gaps into thousands of verifiable agent training tasks.
- Build production-like environments with real codebases and app simulations.
- Design graders that reward real solutions while blocking shortcuts.
Ideal candidate
Truth-seeking, systematic builder who loves turning messy open-ended problems into trustworthy systems and digging into rollouts to make agents measurably better.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering fundamentals with non-trivial systems built in Python
- Experience with data pipelines, test or eval infrastructure, sandboxes, or backend services
- Taste for trustworthy environments where skills transfer, shortcuts fail, and results are debuggable
- Careful and systematic, combining aggregate metrics with close reading of raw outputs
- Enjoys turning messy, open-ended problems into repeatable, high-quality data production systems
- hiring process
- 2-3 short technicals followed by onsite with small project, idea discussion, 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