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Cursor

Data Scientist, Performance and Reliability

Cursor·Research·San Francisco, United States
Posted May 5, 2026·Open for 48 days
This role has been removed. The original listing was at https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cursor/e46dd189-16d2-4a0f-bfb8-207eb403f92f.

Key details

Function
Research
Seniority
Mid
Workplace
On-site
Location
San Francisco, United States
Specialty
Performance Reliability

Job Description

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. About the role Cursor is building the best way to develop software with AI. As an early member of our data science team, you'll help define the way the company uses data to make decisions and deliver a high quality experience to millions of users across billions of user<>AI interactions. What you’ll do - Design and operationalize metrics that measure the stability of product surfaces and the agent harness - Build a measurement and rollout framework to prevent, detect, and root cause performance regressions - Partner with engineers on data tooling that enables self-serve analysis - Identify performance and reliability experiences that disproportionately cause user frustration You may be a fit if - You have 5+ years of experience as a data scientist at a high growth company - You’ve operationalized a north star performance metric across a pillar - You have experience building and operationalizing data tooling for non-data users - You enjoy working directly with engineering on measurement and strategy - You’re experienced in experimentation and causal inference - You're happy to work across the stack and help us build the foundations of data at Cursor
Audit details(provenance, verification trail, raw fields)

Core fields

Posting ID
cursor:e46dd189-16d2-4a0f-bfb8-207eb403f92f
Title
Data Scientist, Performance and Reliability
Function
Research
Location
San Francisco
Workplace mode
in_person
Posted at
2026-05-05 00:00:02Z
Compensation
undisclosed

Provenance

First seen (our scraper)
2026-06-15 05:22:53Z
Last seen
2026-06-21 04:40:31Z
Last updated
2026-06-22 04:41:35Z
Removed at
2026-06-22 04:41:35Z
Days open
Open for 48 days
ATS adapter
ashby
ATS slug
cursor

Verification trail

  1. confirmed_closed2026-06-22 04:41:36Z
    via ashby
    evidence
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      "id": "e46dd189-16d2-4a0f-bfb8-207eb403f92f",
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    }

LLM enrichment

Enriched at 2026-06-17 07:15:10Z. Enrichment runs once per posting, never re-runs.
Seniority
ic_l3
Role archetype
data
Specialty
performance_reliability
Workplace mode
onsite
City (normalized)
San Francisco
Country (normalized)
United States
Comp range
Tech stack
Novel role archetype?
no

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