Forward Deployed Engineer - India
cursor · Posted Sep 28
AI code editor, software development environment, and intelligent programming assistant
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About the role
Cursor's mission is to automate coding, building the best tool for professional programmers using a combination of inventive research, design, and engineering, within a small, flat, talent-dense team. Forward Deployed Engineers embed directly with customer engineering teams to ship production-grade Cursor workflows — including large-scale refactors, migrations, PR review loops, incident-to-fix pipelines, and spec-to-implementation systems. The role owns delivery end-to-end from discovery call through launch, iteration, and post-production support, based across Bengaluru, New Delhi, and Mumbai.
What you will 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 → 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
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 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
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About cursor
Cursor is an AI-powered code editor and software development platform that acts as an intelligent pair programmer. Built as a fork of VS Code, it uses advanced large language models to help developers write, edit, and refactor code using conversational prompts. The platform provides comprehensive codebase understanding, context-aware autocompletions, and autonomous coding agents.
- Industry
- Artificial Intelligence
- Company size
- 300+ employees
- Founded
- 2022
- Location
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Acquired / Subsidiary
Funding
Acquired / Subsidiary · $3.4B+ raised
- 2023-10-01Seed$8M
- 2024-07-01Series A$60M
- 2025-06-05Series C$900M
- 2025-11-13Series D$2.3B
- 2026-07-13Late StageUndisclosed
Leadership
Recent coverage
Value Add VC
SpaceX Closes $60 Billion Acquisition of Cursor Parent Anysphere2026-09-09
Dealroom
Anysphere, Maker of AI Coding Tool Cursor, Reports Rapid Growth2026-07-13
The Next Web
Cursor is Raising $2 Billion at a $50 Billion Valuation2026-04-18
Tech Funding News
Anysphere Stuns Tech World with Landmark $2.3 Billion Fundraise at $29.3B Valuation2025-11-14