Forward Deployed Engineer - India

📋 Description

• Lead discovery with customer engineers to identify the real bottleneck and define clear success
• Design and build Cursor-powered workflows (e.g., large-scale refactors, migrations, PR review
• Ship a fast first version in days, then harden it into something reliable over weeks with proper
• Own production quality: tracing, evals, metrics, debugging model behavior, latency/cost tradeoffs
• Work directly with Staff+/Platform/Eng leaders — going deep in code while also communicating
• Turn what you build into reusable patterns and push improvements back into the core Cursor product

🎯 Requirements

• Thrive in ambiguity and can turn fuzzy problems into clear scopes and shipped systems
• Built and owned AI-native workflows in production, not just prototypes, and have debugged
• Comfortable leading discovery conversations and being accountable for customer outcomes
• Build end-to-end - if it needs frontend, backend, infra, or prompt iteration, you’ll own it
• Handled production reliability before (metrics, alerts, safe rollouts, incident response)
• Strong in Python and TypeScript/JavaScript and can ramp quickly on new stacks