# Forward Deployed Engineer

**Company:** [Cursor](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/cursor)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** ML Engineering
**Skills:** Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Cursor, AI Workflows, Production Monitoring, Metrics, Tracing, Prompt Engineering, Incident Response
**Posted:** 2026-03-13

> Forward Deployed Engineer embeds with customer teams to build and own production-grade AI-powered coding workflows using Cursor, from discovery to iteration and integration back into the core product. Requires strong Python/TS skills, end-to-end ownership, and production reliability experience.

## Job Description

## 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 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

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