Forward Deployed Engineer

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
• ▹Work directly with Staff+/Platform/Eng leaders
• ▹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
• ▹Ability to turn fuzzy problems into clear scopes and shipped systems while thriving in ambiguity
• ▹Experience building and owning AI-native workflows in production, with debugging of real-world model failures
• ▹End-to-end builder mindset — frontend, backend, infra, or prompt iteration, whatever it takes
• ▹Production reliability experience (metrics, alerts, safe rollouts, incident response)

Soft skills

About the company

Cursor's mission is to automate coding; a flat organization with a small, talent-dense team.