Forward Deployed Engineer

Skip to contentCursorSign inContactContact salesDownloadCareersForward Deployed EngineerSolutions · Full-time · San Francisco; New York; RemoteApply↓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 roleForward 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 doLead discovery with customer engineers to identify the real bottleneck and define clear success metricsDesign 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 something reliable over weeks with proper rollout plans, monitoring, and iteration based on real usageOwn production quality: tracing, evals, metrics, debugging model behavior, latency/cost tradeoffs, and failure modesWork directly with Staff+/Platform/Eng leaders — going deep in code while also communicating clearly about tradeoffs and resultsTurn what you build into reusable patterns and push improvements back into the core Cursor productYou may be a fit ifYou have 5+ years of experience with software development and coding in Python, Javascript/TypescriptExperience includes 2+ years in a customer-facing role, leading discovery conversations and being accountable for customer outcomesYou thrive in ambiguity and can turn fuzzy problems into clear scopes and shipped systemsYou’ve built and owned AI-native workflows in production, not just prototypes, and have debugged real-world model failuresYou build end-to-end - if it needs frontend, backend, infra, or prompt iteration, you’ll own itYou’ve handled production reliability before (metrics, alerts, safe rollouts, incident response)Apply for this roleName*Email*Resume↥ Upload fileLinkedIn URLGitHub ProfileTell us about a time you convinced a technical audience to adopt a new solution or tool. What was the resistance and how did you handle it?Will you now or in the future require visa sponsorship to work in the country where this position is located?*YesNoU.S. EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY INFORMATION   (Completion is voluntary and will not subject you to adverse treatment)Anysphere, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability.We invite all applicants to voluntarily self-identify their race, ethnicity, and gender. Submission of the information on this form is strictly voluntary and refusal to provide it will not subject you to any adverse treatment. Information obtained will be retained in a confidential file and separate from personnel records. This information may only be used in accordance with the provision of applicable federal laws, executive orders, and regulations. If you want more information about any of the sections, please check with a company representative.GenderMaleFemaleDecline to self-identifyRaceHispanic or LatinoWhite (Not Hispanic or Latino)Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino)Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino)Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino)American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino)Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino)Decline to...