Forward Deployed Engineer - India
Bengaluru · New Delhi · Mumbai · Full-time · Posted Sep 28, 2026
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Bengaluru · New Delhi · Mumbai
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 will figure out what is 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.
Responsibilities
- Lead discovery with customer engineers to identify the real bottleneck and define clear success metrics
- Design and build Cursor-powered workflows
- 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 including tracing, evals, metrics, debugging model behavior, latency/cost tradeoffs, and failure modes
- Work directly with Staff+/Platform/Eng leaders while going deep in code and communicating clearly about tradeoffs and results
- Turn what you build into reusable patterns and push improvements back into the core Cursor product
Requirements
- Thrive in ambiguity and turn fuzzy problems into clear scopes and shipped systems
- Built and owned AI-native workflows in production, not just prototypes, and debugged real-world model failures
- Comfortable leading discovery conversations and being accountable for customer outcomes
- Build end-to-end across frontend, backend, infra, or prompt iteration
- Handled production reliability before including metrics, alerts, safe rollouts, and incident response
- Strong in Python and TypeScript/JavaScript with the ability to ramp quickly on new stacks
Skills
- Python
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
