Software Engineer, Research Tooling
Cursor, Palo Alto, CA
The role
As a Software Engineer on the Research Tools team, you'll build the infrastructure and applications that enable our researchers to iterate quickly, run complex experiments, and extract insights. This is a full-stack product-engineering role: you'll work directly with researchers and engineers to understand their workflows, identify bottlenecks, and rapidly ship solutions that multiply their productivity. Whether you're creating platforms for experiment orchestration, developing novel visualization tools for model evaluation, or building abstractions for understanding model behavior at scale, your work will directly accelerate our mission of building frontier AI models.
No prior ML or research experience is required.
What you will do
- Build and maintain the full-stack applications and infrastructure researchers rely on daily, covering experiment setup, feedback collection, and results analysis
- Own complete product areas from user needs through design, implementation, and iteration, setting standards for how to build research applications