Forward Deployed Engineer

Anysphere, Inc

$120K — $150K *
US-AnywhereRemote in New York, NY
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in software development with coding experience in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript.
  • 2+ years in customer-facing roles, accountable for outcomes.
  • Ability to translate complex, ambiguous problems into clear, actionable solutions.
  • Experience building and maintaining AI-native workflows in production settings.
  • Proficiency in end-to-end development across frontend, backend, and infrastructure.
  • Understanding of production reliability principles, including metrics and incident response.

Responsibilities

  • Lead discovery sessions with customer engineering teams to identify bottlenecks.
  • Design and implement Cursor-powered workflows for various software processes.
  • Rapidly deliver initial workflow versions, followed by iterative enhancements.
  • Ensure production quality with metrics tracking, debugging, and performance evaluation.
  • Collaborate with engineering leaders to discuss tradeoffs and outcomes clearly.
  • Create reusable components and contribute improvements to the Cursor product.

Benefits

  • Flexible work location (San Francisco, New York, or remote).
  • Opportunity to work directly with engineering leaders.
  • Involvement in end-to-end workflow development.
  • Exposure to real-world engineering challenges.
  • Potential for career advancement in an innovative environment.
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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.

What you'll 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 12 fix pipelines, spec 12 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


You may be a fit if
  • You have 5+ years of experience with software development and coding in Python, Javascript/Typescript
  • Experience includes 2+ years in a customer-facing role, leading discovery conversations and being accountable for customer outcomes
  • 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 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)

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