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Software Engineer, ML Research

Cursor27 Jan 2026
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Job Description

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 small and talent dense. We particularly like people who are truth-seeking, passionate, and creative. We enjoy spirited debate, crazy ideas, and shipping code.

Research Engineer

Cursor is building the future of coding. We train frontier coding agents and scale RL on real user data to make them increasingly effective.

About the role

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.

What you’ll do

  • 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

You may be a fit if

  • 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

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Required Skills

Distributed Systems

Frequently asked questions

Is the Software Engineer, ML Research position at Cursor remote?

The Software Engineer, ML Research role at Cursor is an on-site or hybrid position.

What type of employment is the Software Engineer, ML Research role?

Cursor is hiring for a full-time Software Engineer, ML Research position.

What skills are needed for the Software Engineer, ML Research job at Cursor?

Key skills for this role include Distributed Systems.

How do I apply for the Software Engineer, ML Research position at Cursor?

You can apply for the Software Engineer, ML Research role directly through Cursor's official application link provided on this page.

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Posted27 Jan 2026
Typefulltime
LevelMid-level
LocationSan Francisco
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