Software Engineer, ML Infrastructure

Cursor · San Francisco, United States · FullTime · On site · January 27, 2026

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Posted January 27, 2026 · Read from Cursor
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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

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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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
Employer
Cursor
Location
San Francisco, United States · On site
Contract
FullTime