Forward Deployed Engineer - India

About the Role

Embed with customer engineering teams to design, build, and ship production-grade Cursor-powered workflows that measurably improve developer productivity. Own solutions end-to-end from discovery through launch, iteration, and post-production support while ensuring production reliability and observable metrics.

Builds AI-native workflows using Cursor and debugs model behavior—directly tied to AI-assisted developer tooling and rapid prototype-to-production work.

Location: Bengaluru

Type: FullTime

Posted: Yesterday

Category: Software Engineering

Vibe Markers: 🔥 Hot

Experience Level: Senior

Job Description

Role

Forward Deployed Engineers embed directly with customer engineering teams to deliver production-grade Cursor workflows that solve real engineering bottlenecks. You will lead discovery, design practical solutions, implement working systems, and own them through launch, iteration, and post-production support.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead discovery with customer engineers to identify real bottlenecks and define measurable success metrics.
• Design and build Cursor-powered workflows (e.g., large-scale refactors, migrations, PR review loops, incident→fix pipelines, spec→implementation systems).
• Ship a fast first version in days and harden it into a reliable production system with rollout plans, monitoring, and iteration based on real usage.
• Own production quality: tracing, evaluations, metrics, debugging model behavior, latency/cost tradeoffs, and handling failure modes.
• Work directly with senior engineering and platform leaders, balancing deep engineering work with clear communication about tradeoffs and results.
• Turn customer solutions into reusable patterns and contribute improvements back into the core Cursor product.

Requirements

• Proven ability to thrive in ambiguous environments and convert fuzzy problems into clear scopes and shipped systems.
• Experience building and owning AI-native workflows in production and debugging real-world model failures.
• Comfortable leading discovery conversations and being accountable for customer outcomes.
• End-to-end ownership: comfortable implementing frontend, backend, infrastructure, and prompt iteration as needed.
• Experience with production reliability practices: metrics, alerts, safe rollouts, and incident response.
• Strong proficiency in Python and TypeScript/JavaScript and ability to ramp quickly on new stacks.

Location

This role is based in India across Bengaluru, New Delhi, and Mumbai.

Tech Stack

Cursor, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript

Skills

Customer engagement, Discovery, Communication, End-to-end ownership, System design, Rapid prototyping, Production reliability, Observability and monitoring, Debugging, Metrics and evaluation, Incident response, Product delivery, Prompt iteration