Forward Deployed Engineer
Cursor · San Francisco · New York · Remote
CHECKED 7H AGO
Applied AIremotesenior
At a glance
Highlights
- Embed with customer engineering teams to ship production-grade Cursor workflows.
- Build refactors, migrations, PR review loops and incident-to-fix pipelines.
- Turn field learnings into reusable patterns that improve the core product.
Ideal candidate
A customer-obsessed builder who thrives in ambiguity and turns fuzzy bottlenecks into reliable, production-grade systems. Truth-seeking, creative and energized by debate, shipping code and real-world impact.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software development experience coding in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript
- 2+ years in customer-facing role leading discovery and owning customer outcomes
- Thrive in ambiguity, turning fuzzy problems into scoped, shipped systems
- Built and owned production AI-native workflows and debugged model failures
- Build end-to-end across frontend, backend, infra and prompt iteration
- Experience with production reliability including metrics, alerts, safe rollouts, incident response
Lab profile
About Cursor
Automates coding with AI-powered editor for professional programmers.
What they build
- Cursor AI code editor
- Cursor for Enterprise
Known for
- AI-assisted coding
- Applied ML research
- Developer tools
Key facts
- Founded in 2022
- Headquartered in San Francisco
- Backed by Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz