Destava

Sr. Software Engineer, Pretraining Data

cursor is hiring for Sr. Software Engineer, Pretraining Data in Palo Alto, CA. Senior level, $220k–$357k a year stated. First seen November 11, 2026; 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
Senior
Pay stated
$220k–$357k a year
First seen
November 11, 2026
Listed via
Ashby

What the posting says

SOFTWARE ENGINEER, PRETRAINING DATA We're looking for Senior Software Engineers to build and own 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. As a senior engineer, you'll set technical direction for these systems, lead projects across teams, and mentor other engineers as our pretraining data scales. RESPONSIBILITIES: - Data Platform: Design, build, and scale the distributed…

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