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Forward Deployed Engineer - Japan

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12 hours ago
Singapore, SingaporeSenior

Responsibilities

  • Lead customer discovery, identify valuable workflow bottlenecks, and define success metrics.
  • Design and ship production agents, AI applications, and coding-agent workflows on Grok and SpaceXAI models.
  • Integrate systems with customer authentication, data, workflows, codebases, and delivery systems.
  • Build supporting tools, MCP servers, retrieval and context systems, rules, skills, CI gates, and evaluations.
  • Own production quality through tracing, monitoring, debugging, safe rollouts, incident response, and latency and cost tradeoffs.
  • Measure business outcomes and communicate tradeoffs and results to engineers and technical leaders.
  • Enable customer teams to operate the delivered systems and convert field learnings into reusable product improvements.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in software engineering, machine learning engineering, or data science.
  • Ability to write and review production code in Python and JavaScript/TypeScript.
  • Experience owning customer or operator outcomes and turning ambiguous problems into shipped systems.
  • Experience building and operating AI-native workflows or agents in production and debugging model, tool, data, pipeline, or delivery failures.
  • Experience with production reliability, including metrics, alerts, safe rollouts, and incident response.
  • Ability to build end to end across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and prompt iteration.
  • Fluency in both Japanese and English.
  • Preferred: 2+ years in a customer-facing role accountable for external stakeholder outcomes.
  • Preferred: hands-on experience with agents and tool-calling, evaluation harnesses, retrieval and context systems, CI/CD or developer platforms, or AI-native coding workflows.
  • Preferred: experience as a forward-deployed, solutions, or platform engineer embedded with customers, or as a founding engineer owning an AI product end to end.

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About Cursor

1,001-5,000 employees

Cursor is an AI-powered code editor and coding assistant from Anysphere, built for professional software engineers and enterprise teams. It combines a VS Code–style editor with integrated AI chat, code generation, and repo-aware refactoring, and is sold via individual, team, and enterprise subscriptions. The company also targets sectors like healthcare and state and local education with field engineers who support evaluations and proofs of concept.

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