Software Engineer Pretraining Data
Anysphere, Inc. (doing business as Cursor)Visit Anysphere, Inc. (doing business as Cursor) website
Cursor is an AI coding-agent product operated by Anysphere, Inc.; it was acquired by SpaceX in August 2026 and continues to operate.
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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 build and operate systems that transform raw web, code, multimodal, and acquired data into training-ready datasets. Depending on focus, you will develop data-quality models and experiments, platform pipelines and tooling, or web-crawling infrastructure, while improving reliability, observability, and model-training outcomes.
Requirements
- Strong infrastructure or data-platform background
- Ability to architect and ship end-to-end systems with high ownership
- Ability to debug complex systems independently
- Strong knowledge of large-scale distributed systems
- Experience working alongside AI agents
Responsibilities
- Build high-throughput data pipelines with end-to-end traceability
- Train and deploy models to classify, rank, filter, clean, and identify data
- Design and run data-mixture, repeatability, and quality experiments
- Build pipelines, orchestration, and tooling for training-ready datasets
- Create signals for data quality, lineage, freshness, and pipeline health
- Build and scale web crawling systems for discovering, fetching, and parsing documents
- Improve URL seeding, scoring, host scheduling, crawl success, and parsing quality
- Harden crawl infrastructure for availability, recovery, and ingestion lag
- Automate delivery of crawl datasets into data pipelines