Forward Deployed Engineer

About the role

Our mission is to automate coding by building the best tool for professional programmers. Forward Deployed Engineers embed directly with customer engineering teams to ship production‑grade Cursor workflows that measurably improve how software is built. You will identify bottlenecks, design practical solutions, and own them end‑to‑end from discovery through launch and post‑production support.

Key responsibilities

• Lead discovery with customer engineers to pinpoint real bottlenecks and define clear success metrics.
• Design and build Cursor‑powered workflows such as large‑scale refactors, migrations, PR review loops, incident‑to‑fix pipelines, and spec‑to‑implementation systems.
• Ship an initial version quickly, then harden it into a reliable product with rollout plans, monitoring, and iterative improvements.
• Own production quality including tracing, evaluations, metrics, debugging model behavior, and managing latency/cost trade‑offs.
• Collaborate with senior staff, platform, and engineering leaders while communicating trade‑offs and results clearly.
• Transform solutions into reusable patterns and feed improvements back into the core Cursor product.

Required profile

• Thrive in ambiguity and turn fuzzy problems into clear scopes and shipped systems.
• Built and owned AI‑native workflows in production, debugging real‑world model failures.
• Comfortable leading discovery conversations and accountable for customer outcomes.
• Capable of building end‑to‑end solutions across frontend, backend, infrastructure, or prompt iteration.
• Experienced with production reliability practices such as metrics, alerts, safe rollouts, and incident response.
• Strong in Python and TypeScript/JavaScript and able to ramp quickly on new stacks.

Required skills

• Python
• TypeScript
• JavaScript