Software Engineer, Model Routing & Inference

Posted

CursorNew Yorkfull-time

Tech Stack

Responsibilities

  • Build the inference platform that powers every AI interaction in Cursor's product.
  • Own the full inference path to make Cursor's AI faster, more reliable, and more cost-effective.
  • Design intelligent cross-provider failover to prevent user-visible degradation during outages.
  • Implement routing backpressure and admission control to manage traffic spikes.
  • Reason about cost/performance tradeoffs at scale including GPU utilization and provider economics.

Culture

Flat HierarchyTruth-SeekingPassionateCreativeDebateShipping Code

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About Cursor
Industry: saas
Size: startup

Cursor is building an AI-powered tool for professional programmers with the mission to automate coding through inventive research, design, and engineering. The company is small and talent dense, focusing on building and shipping code quickly.

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