Forward Deployed Engineer - India

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 find out what slows a team down, design a practical solution and own it end-to-end, from the 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. The role is based in all three cities: Bengaluru, New Delhi and Mumbai.

Key responsibilities

• Lead discovery with customer engineers to identify the real bottleneck and define clear success metrics
• Design and build Cursor-powered workflows such as large-scale refactors, migrations, PR review loops, incident-to-fix pipelines and spec-to-implementation systems
• Ship a fast first version in days, then harden it into a reliable system over weeks with 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 and Engineering leaders, going deep in code while communicating clearly about tradeoffs and results
• Turn what you build into reusable patterns and push improvements back into the core Cursor product

Required profile

• Thrives in ambiguity and turns fuzzy problems into clear scopes and shipped systems
• Has built and owned AI-native workflows in production, not just prototypes, and has debugged real-world model failures
• Comfortable leading discovery conversations and being accountable for customer outcomes
• Built end-to-end: owns frontend, backend, infrastructure and prompt iteration
• Has handled production reliability before (metrics, alerts, safe rollouts, incident response)

Required skills

• Strong in Python
• TypeScript/JavaScript
• Able to ramp quickly on new stacks