Cursor
Forward Deployed Engineer
We captured this posting once, on 2026-07-06, and did not track it afterwards — so we cannot tell you whether it is still open.
- Employer
- Cursor
- Location
- New York, United States · San Francisco, CA · United States
- Seniority
- Mid level
- Experience asked for
- 5+ years
- Pay band
- Not disclosed
When we saw it
- Posted 2026-06-26 — the date the employer published it
- Archived 2026-07-06 — when we saved this copy
Found via LinkedIn — US keyword pulls.
Skills the posting named
From the posting
Our mission is to automate coding. The first step in our journey is to build the best tool for professional programmers, using a combination of inventive research, design, and engineering. Our organization is very flat, and our team is small and talent dense. We particularly like people who are truth-seeking, passionate, and creative. We enjoy spirited debate, crazy ideas, and shipping code. 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. …
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