Ashby · 7h ago · Featured
Applied Researcher, Coding Agents
Anysphere·Applied AI
Published band
$220K–$360K + eq.
Top quartile of this category on Northline.
- Location
- Worldwide remote
- Visa
- Not listed
- HQ
- San Francisco · 80–150
- Source
- Ashby
The team behind Cursor is hiring applied researchers and product engineers who live inside the coding loop. Small, remote, high-leverage.
Cursor is a product with research-shaped problems. You will invent evals that predict whether an agent can finish a real PR.
Ship daily. Talk to power users. Care about latency the way most labs care about loss curves.
What they ask
- Shipped LLM features used by real developers
- Strong software taste in TypeScript or Rust
- Opinionated about agent scaffolding, not just prompts
Nice if you have it
- IDE plugin experience
- Compiler or static-analysis background
- Cursor
- Agents
- Eval
- TypeScript