Forward Deployed Engineer

Cursor
San Francisco, New York
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: OtherSkills: ["Communication","Problem-solving","Collaboration","Ownership","Ambition"]

Forward Deployed Engineers embed with customer engineering teams to ship production-grade Cursor workflows, owning end-to-end delivery from discovery through launch and post-production support. You will design AI-native workflows, work across frontend/backend/infra, and collaborate with Staff+/Platform/Eng leaders to improve real-world software delivery with measurable impact.

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4 months ago

Forward Deployed Engineer

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Job Summary

Forward Deployed Engineers embed with customer engineering teams to ship production-grade Cursor workflows, owning end-to-end delivery from discovery through launch and post-production support. You will design AI-native workflows, work across frontend/backend/infra, and collaborate with Staff+/Platform/Eng leaders to improve real-world software delivery with measurable impact.
Location: San Francisco, New York
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead discovery with customer engineers to identify bottlenecks 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 based on real usage.
  • •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 also communicating clearly about tradeoffs and results.

Key Requirements

  • •Strong in Python and TypeScript/JavaScript
  • •Experience building and owning AI-native workflows in production, debugging real-world model failures
  • •Ability to lead discovery conversations and be accountable for customer outcomes
  • •End-to-end ownership across frontend, backend, infra, or prompt iteration
  • •Experience with production reliability (metrics, alerts, safe rollouts, incident response)
Experience:AISaaSSoftware
Skills:CommunicationProblem-solvingCollaborationOwnershipAmbition
Tech Stack:PythonTypeScriptJavaScriptFrontendBackendInfrastructureMonitoring

Company Brief

Cursor
Builds Cursor, an AI-powered development platform and code editor that helps developers write, review, and maintain code using large language models and developer-focused automation tools for enterprise engineering teams.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series D
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2022
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