Software Engineer, ML Research

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United States
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Ownership","Communication","Problem-solving","Collaboration","Curiosity"]

Research Engineer focusing on building training, inference, and data systems for frontier coding models. Collaborates with researchers to enable repeatable progress, shipping end-to-end infrastructure for distributed training and RL, and turning user data into effective training data.

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7 months ago

Software Engineer, ML Research

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Job Summary

Research Engineer focusing on building training, inference, and data systems for frontier coding models. Collaborates with researchers to enable repeatable progress, shipping end-to-end infrastructure for distributed training and RL, and turning user data into effective training data.
Location: United States
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key 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.
  • •Collaborate with researchers to make progress repeatable and iteration fast.
  • •Ship end-to-end solutions with high ownership and reliability.

Key Requirements

  • •Strong infrastructure/distributed systems background
  • •Able to architect and ship end-to-end with high ownership
  • •Strong intuitions about how language models work
  • •Excited to learn more about ML
  • •Experience building distributed training, inference, and RL infrastructure (preferred)
Experience:AI/MLResearch
Skills:OwnershipCommunicationProblem-solvingCollaborationCuriosity

Company Brief

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Builds Cursor, an AI-powered development platform and code editor that helps developers write, review, and maintain code using large language models and developer-focused automation tools for enterprise engineering teams.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series D
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2022
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