Forward Deployed Engineer
Anysphere, Inc. (doing business as Cursor)Visit Anysphere, Inc. (doing business as Cursor) website
Cursor is an AI coding-agent product operated by Anysphere, Inc.; it was acquired by SpaceX in August 2026 and continues to operate.
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About Anysphere, Inc. (doing business as Cursor)
Cursor provides AI-assisted software-development tools, including desktop and CLI coding agents, autonomous cloud agents, code review, and enterprise offerings.
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About the Role
You will work directly with customer engineering teams to identify bottlenecks, define success metrics, and build Cursor-powered workflows. You will take solutions from discovery through launch, iteration, and post-production support; own reliability and model behavior; communicate tradeoffs; and turn successful implementations into reusable patterns.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software development experience
- Python
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- 2+ years of customer-facing experience
- Customer discovery
- AI-native workflow development
- Frontend development
- Backend development
- Infrastructure
- Prompt iteration
- Production reliability
- Metrics
- Alerts
- Incident response
Responsibilities
- Lead discovery with customer engineers to identify bottlenecks and define success metrics
- Design and build Cursor-powered workflows
- Launch workflow implementations and improve them using real usage
- Own tracing, evaluations, metrics, debugging, latency and cost tradeoffs, and failure modes
- Communicate tradeoffs and results with engineering leaders
- Turn implementations into reusable patterns and improve the core product