# Software Engineer, Machine Learning

**Company**: Cursor
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://cursor.com/careers/forward-deployed-engineer-western-europe?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/job/software-engineer-machine-learning-c6c74fec-4ed/

## Description

We are looking for a skilled Software Engineer, Machine Learning to join our team. You will lead discovery with customers, orienting in their codebases and workflows, finding bottlenecks, and defining success metrics.

**Responsibilities:**

- Lead discovery with customers to identify real bottlenecks and define clear success metrics

- Design and ship production agents, AI applications, and coding-agent workflows on Grok and our models

- Get a first version live in days, then harden it over weeks with rollout, monitoring, and iteration

- Own production quality, including tracing, evals, debugging, and latency and cost tradeoffs

- Build systems around the model and integrate them into customers' auth, data, workflow, and delivery systems

- Measure outcomes that matter, such as revenue, cost, hours saved, error rate, cycle time, and escaped defects

- Work directly with Staff+, platform, and domain leaders

- Leave the customer team able to run what you built and turn what you learn into reusable patterns and improvements

**Basic Qualifications:**

- 5+ years of experience in software engineering, machine learning engineering, or data science

- Experience owning a customer or operator outcome and turning a fuzzy problem into a scoped, shipped system

- Experience building and owning AI-native workflows or agents in production using Python, JavaScript/TypeScript

**Preferred Skills and Experience:**

- 2+ years in a customer-facing role, leading discovery conversations and being accountable for outcomes

- Hands-on depth in several areas, including agents and tool-calling, eval harnesses, retrieval and context systems, CI/CD or developer platforms, and AI-native coding workflows

- Experience as a forward-deployed, solutions, or platform engineer embedded with customers, or as a founding engineer who owned an AI product end-to-end

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## Skills

### Required
- Python
- JavaScript/TypeScript
- Machine Learning
- Software Engineering
- Data Science

### Nice to have
- Agents and tool-calling
- Eval harnesses
- Retrieval and context systems
- CI/CD or developer platforms
- AI-native coding workflows

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