# Forward Deployed Engineer

- **Company:** Cursor
- **Location:** San Francisco
- **Posted:** 2026-03-13 00:00:00.000Z
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cursor/34cecd0c-c392-4454-8ef5-261310541011
- **Page:** https://forwardeployedjobs.com/jobs/cursor/forward-deployed-engineer-nbuvu8

## Description

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. ABOUT THE ROLE 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 workflows (e.g., large-scale refactors, migrations, PR review loops, incident → fix pipelines, spec → implementation systems) - Ship a fast first version in days, then harden it into...