mid software engineering Forward Deployed Engineer ic 5+ yrs · Posted Mar 13, 2026

Skills

Incident Response Frontend Development Backend Development Python JavaScript

About this role

Cursor is hiring a mid-level Forward Deployed Engineer in the software engineering function based in San Francisco, CA. The posting calls out experience with Incident Response, Frontend Development, Backend Development, Python and roughly 5+ years of relevant work.

Role: Forward Deployed Engineer
Function: software engineering
Level: mid
Track: Individual contributor
Employment: Full-time
Location: San Francisco, CA
Experience: 5+ years
Department: Solutions
Posted: Mar 13, 2026

AI Summary

Embed with customer engineering teams to design and ship production-grade Cursor AI workflows that improve software development. Lead discovery, build end-to-end solutions, and own reliability from launch through iteration. Requires 5+ years software development experience, 2+ years customer-facing roles, and proven production AI systems ownership.

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Job description

from Cursor careers

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 something reliable over weeks with proper rollout plans, monitoring, and iteration based on real usage
Own production quality: tracing, evals, metrics, debugging model behavior, latency/cost tradeoffs, and failure modes
Work directly with Staff+/Platform/Eng leaders — going deep in code while also communicating clearly about tradeoffs and results
Turn what you build into reusable patterns and push improvements back into the core Cursor product

You may be a fit if

You have 5+ years of experience with software development and coding in Python, Javascript/Typescript
Experience includes 2+ years in a customer-facing role, leading discovery conversations and being accountable for customer outcomes
You thrive in ambiguity and can turn fuzzy problems into clear scopes and shipped systems
You’ve built and owned AI-native workflows in production, not just prototypes, and have debugged real-world model failures
You build end-to-end - if it needs frontend, backend, infra, or prompt iteration, you’ll own it
You’ve handled production reliability before (metrics, alerts, safe rollouts, incident response)