# Embedded Software Engineer

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

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## Description

As an embedded software engineer at Cursor, you will work closely with customer teams to design, develop, and deploy production-grade AI-powered systems. Your primary responsibility will be to own an outcome, ship a production-grade SpaceXSI system, and become the critical technical feedback loop from the field back to product engineering.

**Responsibilities:**

- Lead discovery with customers to identify bottlenecks and define clear success metrics

- Design and ship production agents, AI applications, and coding-agent workflows on Grok and other models

- Get a first version live in days and harden it over weeks with rollout, monitoring, and iteration

- Own production quality, including tracing, evals, debugging, and latency and cost tradeoffs

- Build systems around the model and integrate them into customer systems

- Measure outcomes that matter, such as revenue, cost, hours saved, error rate, cycle time, and escaped defects

- Work directly with staff, platform, and domain leaders

- Leave the customer team able to run what you built and turn what you learn into reusable patterns and improvements to SpaceXSI products

**Requirements:**

- 5+ years of experience in software engineering, machine learning engineering, or data science

- Proficiency in languages such as Python, JavaScript/TypeScript

- Experience owning customer or operator outcomes and turning fuzzy problems into scoped, shipped systems

- Experience building and owning AI-native workflows or agents in production and debugging real production failures

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

- Ability to build end-to-end systems, including frontend, backend, infra, and prompt iteration

- Comfort working in ambiguity and communicating with working engineers and VPs

**Nice to Have:**

- 2+ years of experience in a customer-facing role, leading discovery conversations and being accountable for outcomes

- Hands-on depth in areas such as agents and tool-calling, eval harnesses, retrieval and context systems, CI/CD or developer platforms, and AI-native coding workflows

- Experience as a forward-deployed, solutions, or platform engineer embedded with customers, or as a founding engineer who owned an AI product end to end

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- JavaScript/TypeScript
- machine learning
- data science
- AI-native workflows
- production reliability

### Nice to have
- agents and tool-calling
- eval harnesses
- retrieval and context systems
- CI/CD or developer platforms
- AI-native coding workflows

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