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Forward Deployed Engineer

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13 hours ago
Singapore, SingaporeSenior

Responsibilities

  • Lead customer discovery, understand codebases and workflows, identify valuable use cases, and define measurable success criteria.
  • Design and ship production agents, AI applications, and coding-agent workflows on Grok and other models.
  • Integrate systems with customer authentication, data, tools, workflows, and delivery systems.
  • Harden initial deployments through rollout, monitoring, tracing, evaluations, debugging, and iteration based on real usage.
  • Build supporting systems including tools, MCP servers, retrieval, rules, skills, CI gates, and evaluation systems.
  • Measure business outcomes such as revenue, cost, hours saved, error rate, cycle time, and escaped defects.
  • Work with Staff+, platform, and domain leaders and communicate technical tradeoffs and results.
  • Enable customer teams to operate delivered systems and convert field learnings into reusable product improvements.

Requirements

  • At least 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; other languages are welcome.
  • Experience owning customer or operator outcomes and turning ambiguous problems into scoped, 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.
  • Ability to work independently in ambiguous environments and communicate with both engineers and vice presidents.
  • Preferred: 2 or more 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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