Cursor
Forward Deployed Engineer
San Francisco · Staff+
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 130 days ago
JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonIncident ResponseResearch
About the role
- You are responsible for systems that work in the real world.
Responsibilities
- 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)
- Own production quality: tracing, evals, metrics, debugging model behavior, latency/cost tradeoffs, and failure modes
- Turn what you build into reusable patterns and push improvements back into the core Cursor product
- You build end-to-end - if it needs frontend, backend, infra, or prompt iteration, you'll own it
- The first step in our journey is to build the best tool for professional programmers, using a combination of inventive research, design, and engineering.
Requirements
- 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
Company info
- Our mission is to automate coding.
This listing is sourced directly from Cursor's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.