# Software Engineer, Pretraining at Cursor

- Company: Cursor
- What the company does: Backed by AI Grant.
- Company website: https://cursor.so/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-08-24
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cursor/0320a8db-cb1b-407b-bd62-b23734b83330
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/cursor-software-engineer-pretraining/

## About the role

We’re looking for Software Engineers to build the data systems behind our frontier coding 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.

Tags: Engineering