Software Engineer, ML Infrastructure
Cursor — The AI code editor
About the role
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.
ABOUT THE ROLE
The ML Infrastructure team builds large-scale compute, storage, and software infrastructure to support Cursor’s work building the world’s best agentic coding model. We’re looking for strong engineers who are interested in building high-performance infrastructure and the software to support it. This role works closely with ML researchers and engineers to enable their work through improvements to our training framework, systems reliability/performance, and developer experience.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Collaborate with ML researchers to improve the throughput and reliability of training
- Work with OEMs, cloud service providers, and others to plan and build cutting-edge GPU infrastructure
- Improve the density and scalability of compute environments to enable increasingly large RL workloads
- Create software and systems to automate building, monitoring, and running GPU clusters
- Build workload scheduling and data movement systems to support Cursor’s growing training footprint
YOU MAY BE A FIT IF
- A strong background in systems and infrastructure-focused software engineering, particularly in Python, Typescript, Rust, and Golang
- Experience with distributed storage and networking infrastructure, particularly on Linux systems across cloud and bare metal environments
- Exposure to large-scale systems and their unique challenges, ideally across thousands of nodes with significant resource footprints.
- Production use of infrastructure-as-code and configuration management, across hosts and Kubernetes
NICE TO HAVE
- Operational exposure to Nvidia GPUs with Infiniband or RoCE, particularly with Blackwell and Hopper-class hardware
- Exposure to Ray, Slurm, or other common compute and runtime schedulers
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What the index says about this role
- First seen by JobLarper — Aug 7, 2026 (today). Still inside the window where applications get read by a human rather than a pile.
- No pay range in our index for this listing. Across 1,685 indexed Software Engineer roles in US that do publish one, the middle half sits between $185k and $285k, median $225k — JobLarper's read of the market, not a figure from Cursor.
- What Software Engineer roles ask for — across 10,230 indexed openings: REST/APIs (46%), Backend (42%), Cloud (38%), Python (38%), Go (25%). This posting names REST/APIs, Cloud, Python, Go, AI/LLM, ML.
- Cursor is hiring actively — 59 open roles indexed.
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