Software Engineer, ML Infrastructure

Cursor Cursor · Coding AI · San Francisco, CA · Engineering

Software Engineer focused on building and scaling ML infrastructure, including compute, storage, and software systems to support large-scale training of agentic coding models. The role involves collaborating with researchers, managing GPU infrastructure, and improving training framework performance and reliability.

What you'd actually do

  1. Collaborate with ML researchers to improve the throughput and reliability of training
  2. Work with OEMs, cloud service providers, and others to plan and build cutting-edge GPU infrastructure
  3. Improve the density and scalability of compute environments to enable increasingly large RL workloads
  4. Create software and systems to automate building, monitoring, and running GPU clusters
  5. Build workload scheduling and data movement systems to support Cursor’s growing training footprint

Skills

Required

  • Systems and infrastructure-focused software engineering
  • Python
  • Typescript
  • Rust
  • Golang
  • Distributed storage and networking infrastructure
  • Linux systems
  • Cloud and bare metal environments
  • Large-scale systems
  • Infrastructure-as-code
  • Configuration management
  • Kubernetes

Nice to have

  • Nvidia GPUs with Infiniband or RoCE
  • Blackwell and Hopper-class hardware
  • Ray
  • Slurm
  • Compute and runtime schedulers

What the JD emphasized

  • large-scale compute
  • GPU infrastructure
  • training framework
  • RL workloads
  • thousands of nodes

Other signals

  • ML Infrastructure
  • large-scale compute
  • GPU infrastructure
  • training framework
  • RL workloads