Forward Deployed Engineer

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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 → fix pipelines, spec → 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

• ▹5+ years of experience with software development and coding in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript
• ▹2+ years in a customer-facing role, leading discovery conversations and being accountable for customer outcomes
• ▹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 debugged real-world model failures
• ▹Build end-to-end — if it needs frontend, backend, infra, or prompt iteration, you'll own it
• ▹Have handled production reliability before (metrics, alerts, safe rollouts, incident response)

Soft skills

About the company

Cursor's mission is to automate coding. They're building the best tool for professional programmers by combining inventive research, design, and engineering. The organization is very flat, with a small, talent-dense team that values people who are truth-seeking, passionate, and creative.