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Software Engineer, Bugbot

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New York, NYFull-time$140–225K/yrPosted todayStill listed today

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At a glance

Compensation
$140–225K/yr
Location
New York, NY
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Cursor is hiring a Software Engineer to develop Bugbot, an AI code reviewer that reviews pull requests, catches bugs, and suggests improvements. The engineer will build features across the product, improve model and agent behavior, and expand integrations and onboarding. The role focuses on code review quality, reliability, adoption, and collaboration with ML, infrastructure, and product teams as Bugbot scales.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Agent Development, requiredCode Review Integration, nice to haveCI/CD Integration, nice to haveFull-Stack Development, nice to haveDeveloper Experience, nice to haveProduct Launch, nice to haveCustomer Feedback, nice to haveProduct Iteration, nice to have

Qualifications

External Product Launch Experience, nice to have

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Vision Insurance
Dental Insurance
401(k) Match

Full job description

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. SOFTWARE ENGINEER, BUGBOT We're hiring a Software Engineer to work on Bugbot. Bugbot reviews pull requests, catches bugs, suggests improvements, and is becoming a critical part of how engineering teams ship software. As LLMs rapidly mature, the surface area of what Bugbot can do is expanding just as fast. From the model integration and agent harness improvement to the product UI, integrations, and onboarding experience, you'll maintain Bugbot as the industry's best AI code reviewer.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Launch new Bugbot features end-to-end from defining the feature and building the UI to wiring up the backend and iterating on model behavior so that each release meaningfully improves code review quality. You can check out the Bugbot blog post for some examples of how Bugbot was improved in the past: https://cursor.com/blog/building-bugbot

  • Evolve the review pipeline adapting prompting strategies, model routing, context selection, and agent orchestration to take advantage of new capabilities while managing cost and latency

  • Build integrations that embed Bugbot into every engineer's workflow making AI-assisted review a seamless, default part of the development loop

  • Own product quality and reliability monitor precision and recall, triage false positives, improve observability across the review pipeline, and ensure Bugbot earns trust with every review it posts

  • Design onboarding and adoption flows that help teams go from first install to daily active usage

  • Partner with ML, infrastructure, and product teams to inform model improvements with real-world review data, shape the Bugbot roadmap, and scale the system as adoption grows

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Experience building or working on agents.

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

  • Experience building or working on agents that integrate into the code review or CI/CD workflow

  • Experience shipping full-stack product features end-to-end and enjoying moving between frontend, backend, and model integration

  • Care deeply about developer experience and collecting new evals from customers and internal team members

  • Able to hold the tension between "ship fast to learn" and "don't erode trust with bad suggestions."

  • Experience launching a product or feature to external users and owning the full loop: onboarding, documentation, feedback, and iteration

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

  • Onsite role: must be able to work in person at the San Francisco or New York office

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS: The annual compensation range for this role is listed below. Annual Salary: $140,000 - $225,000 USD Your actual level and base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: job-related knowledge and skills, education, and experience. Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at SpaceXSI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.

How this job compares

Set against the 41,554 open Software Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$140–225K/yr
  • New York median$158–225K/yr2,400 salary ranges
  • US median$135–219K/yr33,110 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $183K, is 6% below the New York median midpoint ($193K) — in the middle half of Software Engineer salary ranges in New York.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 3,087 open Software Engineer jobs in New York and 41,554 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in New York
Experience
Software Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 7 years (34,072 postings).
Education
13,032 of the 41,554 open Software Engineer jobs (31%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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