Forward Deployed Engineer
Cursor
San FranciscoFull-time36d ago
About the role
Our mission is to automate coding. The first step in our journey is to build the best tool for professional programmers, using a combination of inventive research, design, and engineering. Our organization is very flat, and our team is small and talent dense. We particularly like people who are truth-seeking, passionate, and creative. We enjoy spirited debate, crazy ideas, and shipping code.
Forward Deployed Engineers embed directly with customer engineering teams to ship production-grade Cursor workflows that measurably improve how they build software.
You’ll figure out what’s actually slowing a team down, design a practical solution, and own it end-to-end — from first discovery call through launch, iteration, and post-production support. This is not a demo role. You are responsible for systems that work in the real world.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Lead discovery with customer engineers to identify the real bottleneck and define clear success metrics
- Design and build Cursor-powered w