Skills & Technologies
Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
Joblaze summary
In the role of Software Engineer on the Model Routing & Inference team at Cursor, the individual will focus on developing the inference platform that underpins all AI interactions within the product. Key skills include expertise in high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems and a strong grasp of cost-performance tradeoffs at scale. This position is ideal for experienced engineers who thrive in dynamic environments and enjoy tackling complex challenges. Cursor's flat organizational structure fosters a collaborative atmosphere where innovative ideas are encouraged.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about a month ago on Joblaze — tracked directly from Cursor's career page.
- Cursor has 85 other open roles including Marketing Program Manager, Workshops, Solutions Architect, London, Solutions Architect.
- 1579 active AI/ML roles on Joblaze right now.
- 230 active distributed systems roles on Joblaze right now.
- 2 active real-time data pipelines roles on Joblaze right now.
Quick facts
- How much experience is required?
- At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Software Engineer, Model Routing & Inference role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AI/ML, distributed systems, real-time data pipelines, traffic routing, inference serving.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Cursor targets mid-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Software Engineer, Model Routing & Inference role at Cursor.
From the original posting
Our mission is to automate coding. The first step in our journey is to build the best tool for professional programmers, using a combination of inventive research, design, and engineering. Our organization is very flat, and our team is small and talent dense. We particularly like people who are truth-seeking, passionate, and creative. We enjoy spirited debate, crazy ideas, and shipping code.
About the Role
As a Software Engineer on the Model Routing & Inference team at Cursor, you'll build the inference platform that powers every AI interaction in the product.
This team owns the full inference path: making Cursor's AI faster, more reliable, and more cost-effective at a scale few teams in the world get to operate at. Every agent session, every tab completion, and every chat message flows through your stack.
Example projects include...
Building and evolving our inference gateway, a single abstraction over every provider's API semantics, so model onboarding becomes a config change.
Designing intelligent cross-provider failover so no single provider outage causes user-visible degradation.
Designing routing backpressure and admission control so traffic spikes don't cascade into providers.
You may be a fit if
You have deep experience building high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems, especially in inference serving, traffic routing, or real-time data pipelines.
You're comfortable reasoning about cost/performance tradeoffs at scale (GPU utilization, provider economics, capacity planning).
You have strong software engineering fundamentals and enjoy shipping production systems that handle millions of requests.
You make good calls in the gray area: weighing reliability, cost, latency, and user experience when there isn't a single "right" answer.
Applying
If there appears to be a fit, we'll reach to schedule 2-3 short technicals. After, we'll schedule an onsite in our office, where you'll work on a small project, discuss ideas, and meet the team.
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