Forward Deployed Engineer (EMEA)

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.

Key responsibilities

• Lead discovery with customer engineers to identify bottlenecks 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 solution over weeks with proper rollout plans, monitoring, and iteration based on real usage.
• Own production quality: tracing, evaluations, metrics, debugging model behavior, latency/cost trade‑offs, and handling failure modes.
• Work directly with Staff, Platform, and Engineering leaders—going deep in code while communicating clearly about trade‑offs and results.
• Turn built solutions into reusable patterns and push improvements back into the core Cursor product.

Required profile

• 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 solutions; if it needs frontend, backend, infra, or prompt iteration, you’ll own it.
• You’ve handled production reliability before, including metrics, alerts, safe rollouts, and incident response.
• You’re strong in Python and TypeScript/JavaScript and can ramp quickly on new stacks.

Required skills

• Python
• TypeScript/JavaScript