About the Position

Forward Deployed Engineer - India

Bengaluru

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. This role will be based in all 3 cities: Bengaluru, New Delhi, and Mumbai.

Responsibilities

• 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 → fix pipelines, spec → 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

Requirements

• 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

Locations

• Bengaluru, India
• New Delhi, India
• Mumbai, India

We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Opportunity to work in a dynamic and innovative environment
• Collaborate with a small, talent-dense team
• Opportunity to directly impact customer success

About the Company

Our mission is to automate coding. We are building 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.