Software Engineer Model Lifecycle and Signals
Cursor is an AI coding-agent product operated by Anysphere, Inc.; it was acquired by SpaceX in August 2026 and continues to operate.
Funding history
About Anysphere, Inc. (doing business as Cursor)
Cursor provides AI-assisted software-development tools, including desktop and CLI coding agents, autonomous cloud agents, code review, and enterprise offerings.
Skills
About the Role
You will bring frontier models from preview to production and retire older models smoothly. You will evaluate preview models, build model-routing systems, create product signals and experimentation platforms, analyze real-world data, and turn evidence into improved models and products.
Requirements
- Track record of shipping production systems
- Experience owning problems end to end
- Experience building and operating evaluation, measurement, or model-serving systems
- Experience with AI evaluation, experimentation, ranking, relevance, or routing systems
- Ability to turn quality questions into metrics, pipelines, and decisions
- Fluency with data and ability to collaborate with data scientists and researchers
- Knowledge of model and agent behavior
Responsibilities
- Deploy new frontier models to users and retire older models
- Evaluate internal and external preview models before launch
- Provide feedback to model-building teams
- Build model-routing systems that balance quality, speed, and cost
- Build product signals and experimentation platforms to measure model behavior and quality
Hiring Process
Initial screening followed by 2–3 short technical interviews, then an onsite office interview involving a small project, idea discussions, and team meetings.