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Software Engineer, Model Routing & Inference

CursorSoftware Engineer, Model Routing & Inference

Requirements

High-throughput distributed systems experience, Low-latency system design, Inference serving or traffic routing expertise, Cost/performance tradeoff reasoning

Skills

Distributed SystemsMachine LearningBackend engineering

About the role

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.

Responsibilities

  • Build the inference platform that powers every AI interaction in the product
  • Own the full inference path to make AI faster, more reliable, and more cost-effective
  • Build and evolve the inference gateway to abstract provider API semantics
  • Design intelligent cross-provider failover to prevent user-visible degradation
  • Design routing backpressure and admission control to manage traffic spikes

Requirements

  • Deep experience building high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems
  • Experience in inference serving, traffic routing, or real-time data pipelines
  • Ability to reason about cost/performance tradeoffs including GPU utilization and provider economics
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals with experience shipping production systems at scale
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Software Engineer, Model Routing & Inference

Cursor · New York

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