Forward Deployed Engineer - India

About this role

Embed with customer teams to identify high-value workflows and build production-grade AI agents and applications using Grok models. Own delivery from discovery and integration through evaluation, rollout, monitoring, and handoff, while feeding reusable learnings back into SpaceXSI products.

About the company

Cursor builds an AI coding editor and agent workflows that help developers write and ship software faster. It serves software teams looking for tighter AI assistance inside the IDE.

The team

Solutions, Forward Deployment

Stack

What you'll do

• Lead customer discovery, identify bottlenecks, and define success metrics
• Build and deploy production AI agents, applications, and coding-agent workflows
• Integrate systems with customer authentication, data, tools, and delivery workflows
• Harden and operate deployments with tracing, evaluations, monitoring, and iteration
• Optimize model quality, latency, cost, and production reliability
• Measure business outcomes and enable customer teams to maintain delivered systems

What we're looking for

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, machine learning engineering, or data science
• Experience owning a customer or operator outcome and turning an ambiguous problem into a shipped system
• Production experience building and operating AI-native workflows or agents using Python or JavaScript/TypeScript
• Experience debugging production failures across models, tools, data, pipelines, or delivery

Nice to have

• 2+ years in a customer-facing role, leading discovery and owning external stakeholder outcomes
• Hands-on experience with agents, tool-calling, evaluation harnesses, retrieval, CI/CD, developer platforms, or AI coding workflows
• Experience as a forward-deployed, solutions, or platform engineer, or as a founding engineer who owned an AI product end to end