Forward Deployed Engineer (AI)

Location: London, Western Europe

Company

Cursor AI develops AI models and applications, including coding and agent-based products.

What you will do

• Lead customer discovery, analyze codebases and workflows, identify bottlenecks, and define measurable success criteria.
• Design and ship production agents, AI applications, and coding-agent workflows on Grok and related models.
• Integrate systems with customer authentication, data, tools, workflows, and delivery systems.
• Launch initial versions quickly, then improve them through rollout, monitoring, evaluation, debugging, and real-usage iteration.
• Own production quality, including tracing, evals, latency and cost tradeoffs, and failure resolution.
• Collaborate with Staff+, platform, and domain leaders, enable customers to operate the delivered systems, and convert field learnings into reusable product patterns.

Requirements

• 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 scoped, shipped system.
• Experience building and owning AI-native workflows or agents in production using Python and JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Experience debugging production failures involving models, tools, data, pipelines, or delivery paths.

Nice to have

• 2+ years in a customer-facing role leading discovery conversations and owning outcomes for external stakeholders.
• Hands-on experience with several of the following: agents and tool calling, evaluation harnesses, retrieval and context systems, CI/CD or developer platforms, and AI-native coding workflows in a real repository.
• Experience as a forward-deployed, solutions, or platform engineer embedded with customers, or as a founding engineer owning an AI product end to end.

Culture & Benefits

• Work directly with customer engineering organizations and own measurable operational outcomes.
• Move from initial production deployment to hardened systems through monitoring, evaluation, and iteration.
• Build systems that customer teams can operate independently after delivery.