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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
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