# Software Engineer, Research Tools at Cursor

- Company: Cursor
- Status: Open
- Workplace: On-site
- Location: San Francisco
- Level: Mid-level
- Discipline: Engineering
- Employment: Full-time
- Posted: 2026-09-16
- Skills: Engineering
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cursor/c1ac67d4-645a-4632-a178-ea6b5f49bb26

## Description

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 RL Data team, you’ll design and build the tools that researchers and external contributors use to create, review, submit, and monitor the environments and tasks behind Cursor’s reinforcement-learning runs. This is a full-stack product-engineering role embedded in a research team.

You’ll own the review and acceptance experience end to end: from rollout and transcript inspection, task-quality signals grader and reward-hacking analysis, to the workflows that move a submission into training. From there, you’ll build authoring interfaces that let researchers, vendors, and domain experts create and improve environments and tasks quickly and confidently.

Your work will significantly shorten the loop from a task idea or data sources, to candidate task, to trusted training data.




WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON

 - Create fast, trustworthy workflows for vendors and research team to interact effectively with each other — vendor task creation and iteration, vendor submissions, and task acceptance into training.

 - Build review tools for inspecting and comparing rollouts, transcripts, grader outputs, and other signals of task quality.

 - Develop environmen

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