Software Engineer Research Tools
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 design and build full-stack tools for researchers and external contributors to create, review, submit, and monitor reinforcement-learning environments and tasks. You will own review and acceptance workflows, build task-authoring interfaces, and create quality, versioning, and catalog tooling.
Requirements
- Experience shipping full-stack products from user interface through storage or services
- Knowledge of TypeScript and React with Node, Python, or Go
- Experience building dense data-facing tools
- Experience building or maintaining a design system or component library
- Experience designing review, QA, moderation, fraud, or acceptance workflows
- Knowledge of data quality
Responsibilities
- Create workflows for vendor task creation, submissions, and task acceptance into training
- Build review tools for rollouts, transcripts, grader outputs, and task-quality signals
- Develop environment-health, failure-search, versioning, and catalog experiences
- Establish a shared component kit and build self-service task-authoring interfaces with inline quality checks
Hiring Process
Two or three short technical interviews focused on frontend craft and system design, followed by an onsite small project, idea discussion, and team meeting.