Forward Deployed Engineer

About the role

The Forward Deployed Engineer embeds directly with customer engineering teams to ship production-grade Cursor workflows that measurably improve how they build software. You’ll lead discovery, design, build, and own the entire lifecycle of these workflows, from initial discovery calls through launch, iteration, and post-production support.

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 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
• 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
• Experience includes 2+ years in a customer-facing role, leading discovery conversations and being accountable for customer outcomes
• Thrives in ambiguity and can turn fuzzy problems into clear scopes and shipped systems
• Built and owned AI-native workflows in production, not just prototypes, and have debugged real-world model failures
• Builds end-to-end - if it needs frontend, backend, infrastructure, or prompt iteration, you’ll own it
• Handled production reliability before (metrics, alerts, safe rollouts, incident response)