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title: "Forward Deployed Engineer"
company: "Cursor"
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/cursor"
url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/cursor-forward-deployed-engineer-8e1ba652-8b2d-4675-8a15-81d9b3f4b0df"
apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cursor/34cecd0c-c392-4454-8ef5-261310541011"
workplace: onsite
location: "San Francisco"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: mid
role: customer-support
region: united-states
skills: ["javascript", "python", "typescript"]
date_posted: 2026-03-13T17:42:24.068Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-08-26T15:14:53.019Z
---

# Forward Deployed Engineer

**Cursor** — San Francisco

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cursor/34cecd0c-c392-4454-8ef5-261310541011

## About Cursor

Built to make you extraordinarily productive, agents turn ideas into code. Accelerate development by handing off tasks to Cursor.

## About the role

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)

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