Forward Deployed Engineer - EMEA

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Lead discovery with customer engineers to identify the real bottleneck and define clear success metrics
• ▹Design and build Cursor-powered workflows (e.g. large-scale refactors, migrations, PR review loops, incident-to-fix pipelines, spec-to-implementation systems)
• ▹Ship a fast first version in days, then harden it into something reliable over weeks with proper rollout plans, monitoring, and iteration
• ▹Own production quality: tracing, evals, metrics, debugging model behavior, latency/cost tradeoffs, and failure modes
• ▹Work directly with Staff+/Platform/Eng leaders, going deep in code while communicating clearly about tradeoffs and results
• ▹Turn what you build into reusable patterns and push improvements back into the core Cursor product

Requirements

• ▹Thrive in ambiguity and can turn fuzzy problems into clear scopes and shipped systems
• ▹Have built and owned AI-native workflows in production, not just prototypes, and have debugged real-world model failures
• ▹Comfortable leading discovery conversations and accountable for customer outcomes
• ▹Build end-to-end: frontend, backend, infra, or prompt iteration
• ▹Handled production reliability before (metrics, alerts, safe rollouts, incident response)
• ▹Strong in Python and TypeScript/JavaScript and can ramp quickly on new stacks

Soft skills

About the company

Cursor's mission is to automate coding. It is a flat organization with a small, talent-dense team building the best tool for professional programmers through a combination of inventive research, design, and engineering.