Forward Deployed Engineer

Cursor

full-time

Posted on: 3/13/2026

Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San Francisco • California • New York • United States

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About the role

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

You thrive in ambiguity and can turn fuzzy problems into clear scopes and shipped systems.
You’ve built and owned AI-native workflows in production — not just prototypes — and have debugged real-world model failures
You’re comfortable leading discovery conversations and being accountable for customer outcomes
You build end-to-end. If it needs frontend, backend, infra, or prompt iteration, you’ll own it
You’ve handled production reliability before (metrics, alerts, safe rollouts, incident response)
You’re strong in Python and TypeScript/JavaScript and can ramp quickly on new stacks

Benefits

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonTypeScriptJavaScriptAI-native workflowsproduction reliabilitydebuggingmetricsincident responsefrontend developmentbackend development

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationproblem-solvingaccountabilityadaptabilitycollaborationcritical thinkingcustomer focusiterationambiguity management