# Forward Deployed Engineer

**Company**: Cursor
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://cursor.com/careers/forward-deployed-engineer-india?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_612bfbfa-55d

## Description

As a Forward Deployed Engineer at Cursor, you will embed directly with customer engineering teams to design, build, and deploy production-grade workflows that measurably improve their software development processes.

You will be responsible for:

- Leading discovery conversations with customer engineers to identify bottlenecks and define success metrics

- Designing and building Cursor-powered workflows, such as large-scale refactors, migrations, and incident response pipelines

- Shipping fast first versions and hardening them into reliable systems with proper rollout plans, monitoring, and iteration

- Owning production quality, including tracing, evals, metrics, debugging model behavior, and failure modes

- Working directly with senior leaders and engineers to communicate tradeoffs and results

- Turning your builds into reusable patterns and pushing improvements back into the core Cursor product

To be a good fit for this role, you should:

- Thrive in ambiguous environments and turn fuzzy problems into clear scopes and shipped systems

- Have experience building and owning AI-native workflows in production, with a focus on debugging real-world model failures

- Be comfortable leading discovery conversations and being accountable for customer outcomes

- Be able to build end-to-end systems, including frontend, backend, infrastructure, and prompt iteration

- Have experience handling production reliability, including metrics, alerts, safe rollouts, and incident response

- Be proficient in Python and TypeScript/JavaScript, with the ability to quickly ramp up on new stacks

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- TypeScript/JavaScript
- AI-native workflows
- production reliability
- debugging model behavior

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Source: [Apply at cursor.com](https://cursor.com/careers/forward-deployed-engineer-india?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)