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Software Engineer, Model Routing & Inference

Cursor · Engineering

Location
New York, NY, United States · San Francisco, CA, United States
Metro
New York City, San Francisco Bay Area
Workplace
On-site
Level
Unspecified
Type
Full-time
Posted
7 months ago
Source
Ashby

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What the posting covers

About the company

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.…

About the Role

As a Software Engineer on the Model Routing & Inference team at SpaceXAI, 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…

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.…

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,…