Role at a glance
- Job function
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Software Engineering & IT Software Engineering
- Salary
- Not Disclosed
- Location
- Bengaluru New Delhi
- Employment
- Full-time
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Role Summary
Forward Deployed Engineers work with customer engineering teams to identify bottlenecks and build Cursor-powered workflows for production use. They own the work from discovery through launch, iteration, and post-production support, and turn successful approaches into reusable patterns and improvements to the Cursor product.
What You'll Do
- Lead discovery with customer engineers to identify bottlenecks and define success metrics.
- Design and build Cursor-powered workflows, such as refactors, migrations, review loops, and incident-to-fix pipelines.
- Ship an initial version, then improve its reliability through rollout plans, monitoring, and iteration based on usage.
- Own production quality, including tracing, evaluations, metrics, debugging model behavior, latency and cost tradeoffs, and failure modes.
- Work with engineering leaders, contributing code and communicating tradeoffs and results.
- Turn built workflows into reusable patterns and feed improvements back into the Cursor product.
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The posting describes a fit as someone who thrives in ambiguity, has built and owned AI-native workflows in production, can lead customer discovery, and can build end-to-end across frontend, backend, infrastructure, or prompt iteration. It also describes experience with production reliability and model failures, and strength in Python and TypeScript/JavaScript with the ability to ramp up on new stacks.
Original job description
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Original job description
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Our mission is to automate coding. The first step in our journey is to build the best tool for professional programmers, using a combination of inventive research, design, and engineering. Our organization is very flat, and our team is small and talent dense. We particularly like people who are truth-seeking, passionate, and creative. We enjoy spirited debate, crazy ideas, and shipping code.
About the role
Forward Deployed Engineers embed directly with customer engineering teams to ship production-grade Cursor workflows that measurably improve how they build software.
You’ll figure out what’s actually slowing a team down, design a practical solution, and own it end-to-end, from first discovery call through launch, iteration, and post-production support. This is not a demo role. You are responsible for systems that work in the real world. This role will be based in all 3 cities: Bengaluru, New Delhi and Mumbai.
What you’ll do
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 may be a fit if
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
About the company
Cursor
Startup
Cursor is an innovative technology company specializing in software development and digital solutions tailored for businesses of all sizes. With a focus on enhancing user experience and operational efficiency, Cursor offers a range of products, including custom applications, cloud services, and data analytics tools. The company prides itself on its collaborative approach, working closely with clients to understand their unique needs and deliver effective solutions. Committed to driving digital transformation, Cursor strives to empower organizations through cutting-edge technology and exceptional service.