Forward Deployed Engineer - India

Cursor; Bengaluru, New Delhi, Mumbai; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 5,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Cursor is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with customer engineering teams across Bengaluru, New Delhi, and Mumbai. You’ll diagnose bottlenecks, design Cursor-powered workflows, and ship production-grade solutions end-to-end from discovery to post-launch support.

Ideal candidates have proven experience building AI-native workflows in production and can own conversations with customers, balancing frontend, backend, infra, and prompt iteration as needed.

Qualifications

• You’ve built AI-native workflows in production, not just prototypes.
• Strong coding in Python and TS/JS with production readiness.
• Able to own customer-facing discovery and translate outcomes into engineering work.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery with customer engineers to identify bottlenecks and define success metrics.
• Design and build Cursor-powered workflows for large-scale migrations and reviews.
• Deliver a fast initial version and then harden with rollout plans and monitoring.
• Own production quality: tracing, metrics, and latency/cost tradeoffs.

Skills

Python

TypeScript/JavaScript

Job 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. This role will be based in all 3 cities: Bengaluru, New Delhi and Mumbai.

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 to fix pipelines, spec to 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 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’re comfortable leading discovery conversations and being accountable for customer outcomes
• 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)
• You’re strong in Python and TypeScript/JavaScript and can ramp quickly on new stacks