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Cursor is hiring a Software Engineer, Compute Infra in San Francisco, CA; New York, NY. It is a full-time on-site role in Software & IT, asking for at least 2 years of experience, first listed on November 1. The description mentions Kubernetes and Linux. Cursor has 77 other openings in the US, 46 of them in San Francisco, CA. Across all employers on USA Jobs 24 there are 725 Software & IT openings in San Francisco, CA today; the typical one asks for 5 years and advertises about $230,000 a year at the midpoint.
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About hiring at Cursor
Cursor has 78 openings on USA Jobs 24 today across 3 states. Most are in software & IT (27), sales & BD (16) and marketing (9). The biggest locations are San Francisco, CA (47), New York, NY (38) and Austin, TX (6). 27% of them are remote, 4% are open to entry-level candidates and none shows pay. We collect Cursor's jobs every day straight from its own careers system (Ashby), never from job boards or agencies.
The employer's advert
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SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today, SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary and expanding consciousness to the stars.
SpaceXSI is building Super Intelligence to help humanity understand the universe. Our teams are building the full Super Intelligence stack: from our Colossus supercomputers, to Grok models, to our suite of applications, including Grok Bot, Grok Build, Grok Imagine, Grok Voice, and X. We're creating a powerful flywheel where more compute trains better models, better models power more useful products, and what we learn from people using those products shapes what we build next.
About the Role
As a Software Engineer on Compute Infra at SpaceXAI, you'll build the sandbox infrastructure to give every agent their own VM. These VMs power coding agents, Grok Bot, reinforcement learning, and more. We operate one of the largest set of sandbox clusters in the world, at millions of CPU cores, across third- and first-party datacenters. You’ll own developing a cloud for agents, including the virtualization layer (Firecracker and Cloud Hypervisor microVMs), control plane scaling, and the networking/connectivity layer on top.
Responsibilities
Rearchitecting the control plane / scheduler to support 1 million concurrent VMs per cluster.
Building a ublk block device that can dedupe, lazy load, and efficiently snapshot VM data.
Designing an egress proxy and network isolation to securely filter, monitor, and route agent traffic.
Designing resilient systems that can operate across a mixture of cloud and on-premise datacenters.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or scientific discipline; OR 2+ years of professional experience building software in lieu of a degree
Preferred Skills and Experience
You have deep experience with building compute orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes, Mesos).
You have built and operated large fleets of VMs / isolated sandboxes.
You have experience with the Linux kernel and virtualization technologies.
You enjoy thinking about infrastructure primitives that future agents will require.
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