Forward Deployed Engineer

About this role

Embed with customer engineering teams to design and ship production-grade AI-powered workflows using Cursor that meaningfully accelerate their development process. You'll own the complete lifecycle from discovery through production support, solving real bottlenecks with measurable impact.

What you'll do

• Conduct discovery with customer engineers to identify bottlenecks and establish success metrics
• Design and build Cursor-powered workflows for tasks like refactors, migrations, and PR review automation
• Ship rapid initial versions, then harden them into reliable systems with monitoring and rollout plans
• Ensure production quality through tracing, evaluations, metrics, and model behavior debugging
• Communicate clearly with senior engineering leaders about technical tradeoffs and results
• Extract reusable patterns from deployments to improve the core Cursor product

What they're looking for

• Software development (5+ years experience)
• Python and JavaScript/TypeScript
• Customer discovery and outcome accountability
• AI-native workflow development and debugging
• Full-stack engineering (frontend, backend, infrastructure)
• Production reliability and incident response
• Problem scoping and shipping under ambiguity