Job Description
Research engineer role at Cursor (Anysphere) building the systems that make the AI code editor intelligent. Work includes training and serving state-of-the-art models for next-action prediction, code editing, retrieval, and codebase understanding, often tackling ambiguous research problems.
Responsibilities
- Train next-action-prediction and apply models that power Cursor’s editing experience
- Invent inference optimizations for faster, more interactive code edits
- Develop retrieval and program-language techniques for codebase awareness
- Work closely with product and infra engineers to ship models into the Cursor editor
- Contribute to research directions for code intelligence and agentic coding workflows
Benefits
Equity in a hyper-growth AI developer-tools startupIn-person, talent-dense teams in SF North Beach and ManhattanClose collaboration with founders and early engineersLibraries, well-resourced offices, and strong investor backing (e.g., a16z, OpenAI-affiliated investors)
Category
LLM / Generative AI Engineer