At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead discovery with customer engineers and design Cursor-powered workflows.
- Company: A flat organisation focused on automating coding with a small, talent-dense team.
- Benefits: Opportunity to work directly with engineering leaders and own production quality.
- Other info: This role is not a demo position; you will ship production-grade systems.
- Why this job: Join a mission-driven team passionate about improving software development processes.
- Qualifications: Strong in Python and TypeScript/JavaScript with experience in AI-native workflows.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Our mission is to automate coding. The first step in our journey is to build the best tool for professional programmers, using a combination of inventive research, design, and engineering. Our organization is very flat, and our team is small and talent dense. We particularly like people who are truth‑seeking, passionate, and creative. We enjoy spirited debate, crazy ideas, and shipping code.
About The Role
Forward Deployed Engineers embed directly with customer engineering teams to ship production‑grade Cursor workflows that measurably improve how they build software. You’ll figure out what’s actually slowing a team down, design a practical solution, and own it end‑to‑end, from first discovery call through launch, iteration, and post‑production support. This is not a demo role. You are responsible for systems that work in the real world.
What You’ll Do
- Lead discovery with customer engineers to identify the real bottleneck and define clear success metrics.
- Design and build Cursor‑powered workflows (e.g., large‑scale refactors, migrations, PR review loops, incident to fix pipelines, spec to implementation systems).
- Ship a fast first version in days, then harden it into something reliable over weeks with proper rollout plans, monitoring, and iteration based on real usage.
- Own production quality: tracing, evals, metrics, debugging model behavior, latency/cost tradeoffs, and failure modes.
- Work directly with Staff+/Platform/Eng leaders — going deep in code while also communicating clearly about tradeoffs and results.
- Turn what you build into reusable patterns and push improvements back into the core Cursor product.
You May Be a Fit If
- You thrive in ambiguity and can turn fuzzy problems into clear scopes and shipped systems.
- You’ve built and owned AI‑native workflows in production, not just prototypes, and have debugged real‑world model failures.
- You’re comfortable leading discovery conversations and being accountable for customer outcomes.
- You build end‑to‑end. If it needs frontend, backend, infra, or prompt iteration, you’ll own it.
- You’ve handled production reliability before (metrics, alerts, safe rollouts, incident response).
- You’re strong in Python and TypeScript/JavaScript and can ramp quickly on new stacks.
Forward Deployed Engineer - EMEA employer: Cursor
Located in the EMEA region, this company values truth-seeking and creativity. Employees enjoy spirited debates and have the chance to work closely with customer engineering teams to enhance software development. The team is small, allowing for significant impact and collaboration.
