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From the employer's careers site First seen 30 Oct 2026 · Still live on 2 Nov 2026

Software Engineer, ML Platform

Cursor On-site senior full-time

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Description

Cursor is seeking a Software Engineer for its ML Platform team. The successful candidate will build infrastructure that turns real product usage into better models and keeps research moving fast on large GPU fleets. The ML Platform is organised into four teams: Telemetry, ML Data Platform, Observability, and ML DevX and Systems.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in systems and infrastructure software engineering, with experience owning production distributed systems at scale. They should be comfortable working with Linux, cloud, and bare metal, as well as modern orchestration tools like Kubernetes and Ray.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Designing, building, and operating core platform systems used daily by ML researchers and product engineers
  • Partnering closely with research to turn recurring pain into durable infrastructure
  • Owning reliability, performance, and developer experience for the systems in their lane
  • Shipping iteratively in a flat, high-ownership environment and measuring impact

The company offers in-person work with offices in North Beach, San Francisco, Palo Alto, and Manhattan, New York, complete with well-stocked libraries.

Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • event ingestion
  • product analytics pipelines
  • OpenTelemetry
  • tracing
  • reliable data APIs
  • data frameworks
  • Spark
  • Flink
  • ML dataset and training-data infrastructure
  • experiment and run monitoring
  • debug and eval tooling
  • agent-friendly observability UX
  • GPU and cluster scheduling
  • job queues
  • node health
  • research compute developer experience

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