Overview

The role of Software Engineer on the RL Environments team at Cursor involves building systems that convert real-world data into high-quality environments for reinforcement learning. The company aims to automate coding with an emphasis on inventive research, design, and engineering.

Key Responsibilities

Build platforms for creating complex, realistic, and diverse RL environments at scale.
Design a factory that transforms massive raw data into useful and realistic environments.
Define and apply consistent quality standards across various data sources.
Create self-serve APIs and tooling to accelerate task and environment development.
Collaborate with teams to translate model-capability goals into effective training tasks and environments.

Requirements

Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience with data platforms, developer tools, distributed systems, or ML infrastructure.
Able to turn ambiguous quality standards into concrete, automated checks.
Comfortable building repeatable pipelines from messy, heterogeneous data.
Care about model behavior and can translate capability goals into tasks and experiments.
Ability to collaborate across disciplines and own open-ended problems end to end.

Benefits

Benefits information not provided.

Location

Remote role; current location in San Francisco suggests preference for applicants in similar time zones.

How to Apply

If there appears to be a fit, the company will reach out to schedule 2-3 short technical interviews, followed by an onsite project discussion.

Deadline

No deadline stated.