ML Research Infrastructure Engineer

Cursor; California (MO); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Cursor is building the future of coding and training frontier coding agents. We are a small, flat team focused on truth-seeking and creative solutions. You will work with researchers to make progress repeatable and iteration fast.

The Research Engineer role involves building training and inference infrastructure, writing data processing libraries, and shaping data pipelines from user data into effective training data.

Qualifications

• Strong background in infrastructure/distributed systems
• Ability to architect and ship end-to-end with high ownership
• Interest in learning more about ML and language models

Responsibilities

• Build the distributed training, inference, and RL infrastructure
• Write libraries to simplify large-scale data jobs for researchers
• Architect systems turning Cursor user data into effective training data

Skills

Distributed systems

Infrastructure

End-to-end ownership

ML concepts

Job description

Cursor is building the future of coding and training frontier coding agents. We are a small, flat team focused on truth-seeking and creative solutions. You will work with researchers to make progress repeatable and iteration fast.

The Research Engineer role involves building training and inference infrastructure, writing data processing libraries, and shaping data pipelines from user data into effective training data.