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What this team owns
Use "What this team owns" to explain each part and the role it plays.
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On Cursor's Model Routing & Inference team you own the full inference path - the platform that powers every AI interaction in the product. The JD frames the mission plainly: make Cursor's AI faster, more reliable and more cost-effective at a scale few teams in the world get to operate at.
Read this section as the role contract. The diagram or table names the surface area, but the interview signal is whether you can turn it into a clear operating claim: what you own, what you do not own, what evidence proves the work is working and where judgment matters.
Read that sentence twice, because each adjective is a real axis you'll be graded against. Every agent session, every Tab completion and every chat message flows through the stack you maintain. The path is always hot and always user-facing, which is what makes the role high-stakes rather than a back-office service.
- What you own
- The full inference path: the gateway, routing, failover and admission control under every AI feature
- What flows through it
- Agent sessions, Tab completions, ⌘K and chat - millions of requests
- What you optimize
- Speed, reliability and cost, traded against each other in real time
- How you're judged
- Production outcomes you own end-to-end, with SLOs and on-call-grade reliability
One distinction matters before the recruiter screen. This is a platform and distributed-systems role. It is not model training and not ML research.