Forward Deployed Engineer

Highlights

• Embed directly with customer teams to ship production-grade Cursor workflows.
• Lead discovery to find bottlenecks and design practical solutions end-to-end.
• Turn custom builds into reusable patterns that improve core Cursor product.

Ideal candidate

Truth-seeking, creative builder who thrives in ambiguity and loves owning real-world systems end-to-end, from fuzzy customer problem to reliable production impact.

Requirements

• Thrive in ambiguity and can turn fuzzy problems into clear scopes and shipped systems
• Built and owned AI-native workflows in production and debugged real-world model failures
• Comfortable leading discovery conversations and accountable for customer outcomes
• Build end-to-end across frontend, backend, infra, and prompt iteration
• Handled production reliability including metrics, alerts, safe rollouts, incident response
• Strong in Python and TypeScript/JavaScript and can ramp quickly on new stacks