Software Engineer, Agent Evaluation and Quality

Anysphere, Inc

$120K — $150K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus on evaluation systems or similar areas.
  • Proven ability to develop concrete metrics from abstract quality questions.
  • Strong collaboration skills with data scientists and researchers.
  • Up-to-date knowledge of AI/ML trends and models.
  • Solid software engineering fundamentals with real-world systems shipping experience.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build an AI evaluation system including datasets, dashboards, and alerts.
  • Create feedback loops based on user data to inform model improvements.
  • Develop tools for analyzing and debugging agent behaviors.
  • Define quality metrics and establish operational guidelines for agent performance.

Benefits

  • Collaborative team environment that bridges product, data, and engineering.
  • Opportunity to impact multiple products and high-stakes decision-making.
  • Engagement with state-of-the-art AI research and technologies.
  • Professional development through collaboration with researchers and data scientists.
Full Job Description
Engineering • Full-time • San Francisco; New York
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About the Role

As a Software Engineer on the Agent Quality team at Cursor, you'll build the measurement, evaluation, and feedback-loop infrastructure that makes the Cursor core agent reliably better over time.

This role sits at the intersection of product, data, and engineering: you'll instrument what matters, help define how we judge quality, build pipelines and tooling to analyze agent behavior at scale, and partner closely with research, product, and infrastructure teams to turn insights into improvements.

Your impact will compound across every Cursor product built on the shared harness-and across high-stakes decisions around model choice, quality, and cost.

What you'll work on
  • Designing and building best-in-class AI evaluation system: curated datasets, offline replay, scorers / judges, regression alerts, and dashboards.
  • Designing feedback loops from real usage: collecting, cleaning, and interpreting user signals to inform model and harness changes.
  • Developing analysis tooling and workflows for debugging agent behavior: deep dives on failure modes, clustering themes, and surfacing actionable insights.
  • Improving reliability and guardrails by making quality measurable and operational: defining "good/bad/degraded" sessions, alerting, and triage primitives.


You may be a fit if
  • You've built and operated evaluation or measurement systems, such as AI evals, experimentation, ranking/relevance, or search quality. You can turn ambiguous "quality" questions into concrete metrics, pipelines, and decisions.
  • You have strong data acumen, and can collaborate effectively with data scientists and researchers.
  • You have taste and strong opinions on model and agent behaviors. You stay up-to-date and informed on emerging research and industry trends.
  • You have strong software engineering fundamentals and enjoy shipping production systems.


Applying

If there appears to be a fit, we'll reach to schedule 2-3 short technicals. After, we'll schedule an onsite in our office, where you'll work on a small project, discuss ideas, and meet the team.

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