Cursor

Forward Deployed Engineer, Western Europe

Cursor
Apply
2 days ago
London, United KingdomSenior

Responsibilities

  • Lead customer discovery, understand codebases and workflows, identify valuable use cases, and define success metrics.
  • Design and ship production agents, AI applications, and coding-agent workflows using Grok and SpaceXSI models.
  • Deploy initial versions quickly and harden them through rollout, monitoring, and real-world iteration.
  • Own production quality through tracing, evaluations, debugging, and latency and cost tradeoffs.
  • Build tools, MCP servers, retrieval and context systems, rules, skills, CI gates, and evaluations around models.
  • Integrate systems with customer authentication, data, workflows, and delivery systems.
  • Measure business outcomes including revenue, cost, hours saved, error rate, cycle time, and escaped defects.
  • Work with Staff+, platform, and domain leaders and convert field learnings into reusable SpaceXSI product improvements.
  • Ensure customer teams can operate the systems after deployment.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in software engineering, machine learning engineering, or data science.
  • 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.
  • Production programming experience with Python and JavaScript/TypeScript.
  • Experience debugging production failures involving models, tools, data, pipelines, or delivery paths.
  • Preferred: 2+ years in a customer-facing role leading discovery and owning outcomes for external stakeholders.
  • Preferred: hands-on experience with agents and tool-calling, evaluation harnesses, retrieval and context systems, CI/CD or developer platforms, and 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.

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