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title: "Research Scientist"
company: "Cursor"
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/cursor"
url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/cursor-research-scientist-9ffe8de0-224b-4437-9d2a-9190bef0d197"
apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cursor/cd4bad0a-e2f6-4a8d-9b57-ce1780efedae"
workplace: onsite
location: "San Francisco"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: mid
role: ai-machine-learning
region: united-states
date_posted: 2026-01-27T22:54:08.223Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-08-26T15:14:53.019Z
---

# Research Scientist

**Cursor** — San Francisco

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cursor/cd4bad0a-e2f6-4a8d-9b57-ce1780efedae

## About Cursor

Built to make you extraordinarily productive, agents turn ideas into code. Accelerate development by handing off tasks to Cursor.

## About the role

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. We particularly like people who are truth-seeking, passionate, and creative. We enjoy spirited debate, crazy ideas, and shipping code.

#### Research Scientist

Cursor is building the future of coding. We train [frontier coding agents](https://cursor.com/blog/composer) and scale RL on real user data to make them increasingly effective.

#### About the role

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. You should expect significantly more scope and autonomy than in other research labs.

#### What you’ll do

- Improve our understanding of RL, what it takes to handle longer horizon tasks, and train with less compute

- Train graders to improve performance on coding tasks with non-verifiable reward

- Improve the quality and difficulty of datapoints we use for training our models

- [Realtime RL](https://cursor.com/blog/tab-rl) for coding agents

#### You may be a fit if

- You have a deep background in RL and strong machine learning fundamentals

- You’re an excellent programmer and software engineer

- You can handle ambiguous research tasks with little guidance

- You care a lot about data quality, and can dive into the data when appropriate

- You are truth seeking, aiming to learn more about the science than proving your ideas are correct.#LI-DNI

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