Sr. Software Engineer, ML Platform

Palo Alto, CAfull timeOn Site

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senior

$180k–$330k

H1B: no

Cursor SpaceXSI seeks a Sr. Software Engineer for ML Platform to build infrastructure supporting ML research and product engineering on large GPU fleets. The role involves designing, building, and operating core platform systems and partnering closely with research teams.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and operate core platform systems used daily by ML researchers and product engineers
Partner closely with research to turn recurring pain into durable infrastructure
Own reliability, performance, and developer experience for the systems in your lane
Ship iteratively in a flat, high-ownership environment. Measure impact, then raise the bar

Qualification

Bachelor'sTelemetryProduct Data PlatformObservabilityML DevX and SystemsADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

Required

Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in computer science, machine learning, or another quantitative discipline; OR equivalent work experience
5+ years of industry experience working with production distributed systems (e.g., infrastructure, ingestion, data pipelines, or scheduling/orchestration, etc.)

Preferred

Experience owning production distributed systems at meaningful scale (ingestion, data pipelines, scheduling/orchestration, or similar)
Experience partnering and building platforms for ML researchers and product engineers
Thrive where ownership is high and the feedback loop is short
Telemetry: event ingestion, product analytics pipelines, OpenTelemetry / tracing, reliable data APIs
Product Data Platform: data frameworks, Spark / Flink / Ray, ML dataset and training-data infrastructure
Observability: experiment / run monitoring, debug and eval tooling, agent-friendly observability UX
ML DevX and Systems: GPU / cluster scheduling, job queues, node health, research compute developer experience
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

Benefits

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401(k)
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