Forward Deployed Engineer - Japan

Cursor (Anysphere); United States; On-site; USD 75,000 - 113,000; Full time

Job summary

Cursor (Anysphere) is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer for Japan. You will ship production agents, AI apps, and coding-agent workflows integrated with the customer's authentication, data, and delivery systems, and you will work within Grok and our models to ensure robust, measurable outcomes.

The role requires 5+ years in SWE/MLE/data science, production-owned AI workflows, and ideally 2+ years in customer-facing environments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of SWE, ML, data science, or AI workflow production experience.
• Experience with Python and JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Customer-facing experience preferred.
• Ability to ship production agents, AI apps, and coding-agent workflows.

Responsibilities

• Ship production agents, AI apps and coding-agent workflows.
• Integrate with customer auth, data and delivery systems.
• Measure impact on revenue, cost, cycle time and defects.

Skills

5+ years SWE/MLE/data science

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

Production systems

Customer-facing experience

Tools

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

Job description

Japan-based FDE embedding with customer engineering teams. The JD now opens with SpaceX/SpaceXSI boilerplate: you ship production agents, AI apps and coding-agent workflows "on Grok and our models", wire them into the customer's auth, data and delivery systems, harden them with evals, and measure revenue, cost, cycle time or escaped defects rather than seat adoption. Asks for 5+ years in SWE/MLE/data science, agents or AI workflows owned in production (Python, JS/TS), and ideally 2+ years customer-facing.

A dedicated Japan FDE seat, separate from the Australia/Singapore one, means Cursor sees Japanese enterprise engineering orgs as their own market, not an APAC afterthought. Few frontier-adjacent companies hire FDEs in Japan at all.

Forward Deployed Engineer - Japan at Cursor (Anysphere). Location: Japan. Compensation: Not disclosed. Posted November 11, 2026.