# Embedded Software Engineer, AI Systems

**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 systems.

Your primary responsibility will be to own an outcome and ship a production-grade SpaceXAI system that still runs after you leave. You will be the critical technical feedback loop from the field back to product engineering.

Key responsibilities include:

- Leading discovery with customers to identify bottlenecks and define success metrics

- Designing and shipping production agents, AI applications, and coding-agent workflows on Grok and other models

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

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

- Building systems around the model and integrating them into customer systems

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

- Working directly with staff, platform, and domain leaders

- Leaving the customer team able to run what you built and turning what you learn into reusable patterns and improvements to SpaceXAI products

Requirements:

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

- Proficiency in writing and reviewing production code in languages such as Python, JavaScript/TypeScript

- Experience owning a customer or operator outcome and turning a fuzzy problem into a scoped, shipped system

- 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

- Fluency in both Japanese and English

Nice to have:

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

- 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 engineering
- data science
- production code
- AI-native workflows
- agents

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

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