Sr. Model Engineer

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

We're looking for Research Scientists who can drive effective RL or mid-training research in a small-team setting. You'll own ambiguous, hard research problems end-to-end: forming hypotheses, designing experiments, building the training/eval/data needed to test them, and pushing results into the next model. RESPONSIBILITIES: - Design and run rigorous experiments that turn research ideas into measurable gains in model capability - Improve data recipes through data quality, deduplication, and mixture experiments - Define what makes RL data and rewards good, including grader design and…

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