Forward Deployed Engineer is open at Cursor in San Francisco, CA. The posting gives a salary of $235K - $320K. Posted on Oct 6, 2026, and still on Cursor’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
Lead discovery with the customer: orient in their codebases and workflows, find the real bottleneck and the use case worth building, and define clear success metrics - Design and ship production agents, AI applications, and coding-agent workflows on Grok and our models, on live business processes and inside the customer's engineering org - Get a first version live in days, then harden it over weeks with rollout…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Cursor’s careers page.
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