Forward Deployed Engineer

Join Cursor as a Forward Deployed Engineer to enhance customer engineering teams with production-grade workflows, focusing on real-world solutions and system reliability. 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.

• •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 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