Forward Deployed Engineer
Core
Embed with customer engineering teams to design, build, and ship production-grade Cursor workflows that automate coding tasks and improve software development velocity.
Role type
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (AI/DevTools)
Builds
Cursor-powered workflows for large-scale refactors, migrations, PR review loops, incident-to-fix pipelines, and spec-to-implementation systems
Domain
AI-native developer tools / Software Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, end-to-end system ownership, production reliability (metrics, alerts, incident response), ambiguity resolution, stakeholder discovery
Preferred skills
Experience with AI-native workflows in production, debugging real-world model failures, building reusable patterns for core products
Technologies
Cursor, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript
Responsibilities
Lead discovery calls to identify bottlenecks and define success metrics; Design and build Cursor-powered workflows; Ship fast initial versions and harden them with monitoring and iteration; Own production quality including tracing, evals, and latency/cost tradeoffs; Collaborate with Staff+/Platform leaders on code and tradeoffs; Push improvements back into the core Cursor product