✦ Luna Orbit — AI & Machine Learning

Software Engineer, ML Research

at Cursor

📍 SF / NY Unknown Posted March 08, 2026
Type Not Specified
Experience mid
Exp. Years Not specified
Education Not specified
Category AI & Machine Learning

Cursor is seeking a Software Engineer specializing in ML research to develop infrastructure for training, inference, and reinforcement learning models, working closely with research teams.

  • Build training and inference systems
  • Architect ML infrastructure
  • Collaborate with researchers
  • Scale RL models
  • Convert user data into training data

Role involves building distributed training and inference systems, architecting ML infrastructure, and working with language models using Python and related tools.

The ideal candidate is a research engineer with strong background in distributed systems, systems architecture, and software engineering, passionate about building scalable ML infrastructure and language models.

Distributed systemsSystems architectureSoftware engineering
Language modelsML infrastructure
PythonDistributed systemsRL frameworks
Distributed trainingInferenceReinforcement LearningRLSystems architectureSoftware engineeringData systemsLanguage modelsML infrastructure
Distributed trainingInferenceReinforcement LearningRLSystems architectureSoftware engineeringResearch engineeringData systemsLanguage modelsML infrastructure
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Industry Technology / Software
Job Function Developing scalable ML infrastructure and systems for AI research
Software EngineerML ResearchResearch EngineerDistributed trainingInferenceReinforcement LearningRLSystems architectureSoftware engineeringData systemsLanguage modelsML infrastructureCursorAIMachine LearningDeep LearningDistributed systemsPythonResearch engineering

Lack of experience in distributed systems or systems architecture, No background in software engineering, Unwillingness to work in SF or NY

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