Role at a glance
- Salary
- Not Disclosed
- Location
- San Francisco, United States New York, United States
- Work arrangement
- On-site
- Employment
- Full-time
- Experience
- 5+ years of experience with software development and coding in Python, Javascript/Typescript
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Role Summary
Forward Deployed Engineers embed with customer engineering teams to ship production-grade Cursor workflows that improve how those teams build software. The role spans discovery, implementation, launch, iteration, and post-production support, while turning successful solutions into reusable patterns for the core 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, PR review loops, incident-to-fix pipelines, and...
- Ship initial versions quickly and harden them with rollout plans, monitoring, and usage-based iteration
- Own production quality through tracing, evals, metrics, model-behavior debugging, latency and cost tradeoffs, and failure-mode analysis
- Work with Staff+, Platform, and engineering leaders to communicate tradeoffs and results
- Turn deployed solutions into reusable patterns and push improvements back into the core Cursor product
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View full postingQualifications
5+ years of software development and coding experience in Python and Javascript/Typescript; 2+ years in a customer-facing role; experience turning ambiguous problems into shipped systems; production experience building and owning AI-native workflows; end-to-end frontend, backend, infrastructure, and prompt iteration ownership; production reliability experience including metrics, alerts, safe rollouts, and incident response.
Required
- 5+ years of experience with software development and coding in Python, Javascript/Typescript
- 2+ years in a customer-facing role, leading discovery conversations and being accountable for customer outcomes
- Built and owned AI-native workflows in production
- Handled production reliability before (metrics, alerts, safe rollouts, incident response)
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.
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 have 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
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 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)
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.
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.