Forward Deployed Engineer

Cursor; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Cursor is seeking Forward Deployed Engineers to embed with customer engineering teams and deliver Cursor-powered workflows that materially improve how software is built. You’ll uncover bottlenecks, design practical solutions, and own them from discovery to post-production support.

This is a real-world role, not a demo—expect to ship, iterate, and optimize in production. You will collaborate with senior leaders, lead discovery conversations, and take ownership of end-to-end delivery across

Qualifications

• Experience building AI-powered workflows in production.
• Strong Python and TS/JS programming skills.
• Ability to own complex projects from discovery to production.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery with customer engineers to identify bottlenecks and define success metrics.
• Design and build Cursor-powered workflows for large-scale refactors, migrations, and review loops.
• Ship a fast first version in days and harden it with rollout plans, monitoring, and iteration based on real usage.
• Own production quality: tracing, metrics, latency, and failure mode analysis.
• Collaborate with Staff+/Platform/Eng leaders and communicate tradeoffs clearly.
• Turn what you build into reusable patterns and push improvements back into Cursor.

Skills

Python

TypeScript/JavaScript

AI-native workflows

Production debugging

End-to-end ownership

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.

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

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 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