Descripción del puesto
<p style="min-height:1.5em">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.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Forward Deployed Engineers embed directly with customer engineering teams to ship production-grade Cursor workflows that measurably improve how they build software.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">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.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2>What you’ll do</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Lead discovery with customer engineers to identify the real bottleneck and define clear success metrics</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Design and build Cursor-powered workflows (e.g., large-scale refactors, migrations, PR review loops, incident → fix pipelines, spec → implementation systems)</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">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</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Own production quality: tracing, evals, metrics, debugging model behavior, latency/cost tradeoffs, and failure modes</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Work directly with Staff+/Platform/Eng leaders — going deep in code while also communicating clearly about tradeoffs and results</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Turn what you build into reusable patterns and push improvements back into the core Cursor product</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2>You may be a fit if</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">You thrive in ambiguity and can turn fuzzy problems into clear scopes and shipped systems.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">You’ve built and owned AI-native workflows in production — not just prototypes — and have debugged real-world model failures</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">You’re comfortable leading discovery conversations and being accountable for customer outcomes</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">You build end-to-end. If it needs frontend, backend, infra, or prompt iteration, you’ll own it</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">You’ve handled production reliability before (metrics, alerts, safe rollouts, incident response)</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">You’re strong in Python and TypeScript/JavaScript and can ramp quickly on new stacks</p></li></ul>