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Software Engineer, ML Research

Our mission is to automate coding. The first step in our journey is to build the best tool for professional programmers, using a combination of inventive research, design, and engineering. Our organization is very flat, and our team is smal

Company

Cursor

Location

San Francisco; New York

Status

Open

Posted

2026-01-27T20:27:08.746+00:00

Cursor is hiring a software engineer for ML research to build the training, inference and data systems behind its coding models. The work covers distributed training and reinforcement learning infrastructure, libraries that make large-scale data jobs easier for researchers, and pipelines that turn Cursor user data into training data. The posting asks for a strong background in infrastructure or distributed systems, high ownership, and good intuitions about how language models work. The team is small and flat, the role is onsite in San Francisco or New York.