Lead ML Infrastructure & Evaluation

Cursor; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Cursor is seeking a senior engineering leader to helm the infrastructure that trains, tests, and evaluates our ML models in production. You will guide a team of engineers, debug across systems and model behavior, and shape the technical direction for scalable, low-latency pipelines.

This role blends deep systems work with research collaboration, and offers opportunities to own critical infra decisions end-to-end.

Qualifications

• Led engineering teams building ML training and evaluation infra.
• Strong distributed systems fundamentals and reliability.
• Hands-on coding and ability to review PRs.

Responsibilities

• Lead infra for ML model training, testing, and evaluation at scale.
• Collaborate with researchers to translate model tradeoffs into scalable pipelines.

Skills

Infrastructure leadership

Distributed systems

ML infrastructure

Hiring & mentorship

Job description

Cursor is seeking a senior engineering leader to helm the infrastructure that trains, tests, and evaluates our ML models in production. You will guide a team of engineers, debug across systems and model behavior, and shape the technical direction for scalable, low-latency pipelines.

This role blends deep systems work with research collaboration, and offers opportunities to own critical infra decisions end-to-end.