Destava

Software Engineer, Pretraining Data

cursor is hiring for Software Engineer, Pretraining Data in Palo Alto, CA. Mid level, $160k–$250k a year stated. First seen November 11, 2026, posted 2 times; open as of November 14, 2026. Jobs taken straight from company career pages — no aggregator in between.

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Company
cursor
Where
Palo Alto, CA
Level
Mid
Pay stated
$160k–$250k a year
First seen
November 11, 2026
Postings
2
Listed via
Ashby

What the posting says

SOFTWARE ENGINEER, PRETRAINING DATA We're looking for Software Engineers to build the data systems behind our frontier models' initial training. You'll work on large-scale crawling, data platform, and pipeline infrastructure, turning raw dumps into the datasets our models train on, and making iteration with researchers fast and reliable. RESPONSIBILITIES: Data Platform: - Build the platform that turns raw web, code, multimodal, and acquired data into training-ready datasets for frontier pretraining runs - Own the pipelines, orchestration, and tooling that make pretraining data iteration…

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