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Forward Deployed Engineer - Japan
AIRemote — Japan
Published on 2026-11-09
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About this role
Embed with customer teams to identify high-value workflows and deliver production-ready AI agents and applications. Own deployment, reliability, and measurable customer outcomes, then feed 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
GrokPythonJavaScriptTypeScriptMCPCI/CD
What you'll do
- Lead customer discovery and define use cases and success metrics
- Build and deploy production AI agents, applications, and coding workflows
- Integrate solutions with customer authentication, data, tools, and delivery systems
- Monitor, evaluate, debug, and improve production quality, latency, and cost
- Measure business outcomes and enable customer teams to operate deployed systems
- Share field learnings and reusable patterns with product engineering
What we're looking for
- 5+ years in software engineering, machine learning engineering, or data science
- Experience owning customer or operator outcomes and shipping scoped systems
- Production experience building and operating AI-native workflows or agents with Python or JavaScript/TypeScript
- Ability to debug 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
- Experience with agents and tool calling, evaluation harnesses, retrieval, CI/CD, developer platforms, or AI coding workflows
- Forward-deployed, solutions, or platform engineering experience, or end-to-end ownership as a founding engineer