Software Engineer, ML Research

Cursor (Anysphere)
San Francisco / New York2026-01-27OnSite

About the job

We’re looking for Research Engineers to build the training, inference, and data systems behind our frontier coding models. You’ll work directly with researchers to make progress repeatable and iteration fast.

Responsibilities

Build our distributed training, inference, and RL infrastructure

Write libraries to simplify how researchers do large-scale data jobs

Architect the systems that turn Cursor user data into effective training data

Qualifications

Minimum

You have a strong infrastructure/distributed systems background

You are able to architect and ship end-to-end with high ownership

You have strong intuitions about how language models work

You’re excited to learn more about ML

Preferred

No preferred qualifications listed.