Cursor

Forward Deployed Engineer (Australia/Singapore)

Cursor
Apply
29 days ago
Singapore (city not specified) or Australia (city not specified)Senior

Responsibilities

  • Lead customer discovery, understand codebases and workflows, identify worthwhile use cases, and define success metrics.
  • Design and ship production agents, AI applications, and coding-agent workflows on Grok and SpaceXSI models.
  • Integrate tools, MCP servers, retrieval, rules, skills, CI gates, and evaluations with customer authentication, data, workflows, and delivery systems.
  • Own production quality through tracing, evaluations, debugging, monitoring, safe rollouts, incident response, and latency and cost tradeoffs.
  • Measure business outcomes including revenue, cost, hours saved, error rate, cycle time, and escaped defects.
  • Work with Staff+, platform, domain, and executive leaders, communicate technical tradeoffs, and provide post-launch support.
  • Enable customer teams to operate delivered systems and turn field learnings into reusable SpaceXSI product improvements.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in software engineering, machine learning engineering, or data science.
  • Production coding and code review experience with 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 owning AI-native workflows or agents in production and debugging model, tool, data, pipeline, or delivery failures.
  • Experience handling 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 through ambiguity and communicate effectively with working engineers and vice presidents.
  • Nice to have: 2+ years in a customer-facing role with discovery and accountability for external stakeholder outcomes.
  • Nice to have: hands-on depth in agents and tool-calling, evaluation harnesses, retrieval and context systems, CI/CD or developer platforms, or AI-native coding workflows in a real repository.
  • Nice to have: experience as a forward-deployed, solutions, or platform engineer embedded with customers, or as a founding engineer owning an AI product end to end.

Categories

Forward Deployed
Cursor

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.

Contact me