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Forward Deployed Engineer - India
Cursor, Bengaluru +2
The role
You embed directly with customer teams as the engineer on the ground: own an outcome, ship a production-grade SpaceXSI system that still runs after you leave, and become the critical technical feedback loop from the field back to product engineering. The work is the project. One week you might take a messy business workflow and put a production agent on it: pick the use case, stand up the architecture, wire it into the customer's auth, data, and tools, then harden it with evals until the team actually uses it.
Another week you might live in a customer's repo and delivery system and ship an agent-powered path for a migration, a PR review loop, or an incident-to-fix flow, behind tests, review, and rollout rather than in a chat sidebar.
What you will do
- 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
What you need
- You have 5+ years of experience in software engineering, machine learning engineering, or data science
- You’ve owned a customer or operator outcome, not just a slide or a prototype, and can turn a fuzzy problem into a scoped, shipped system
- You’ve built and owned AI-native workflows or agents in production (using Python, JavaScript/TypeScript), and debugged real production failures (model, tool, data, pipeline, or delivery path)
Nice to have
- 2+ years in a customer-facing role, leading discovery conversations and being accountable for outcomes for external stakeholders
- Hands-on depth in several of: agents and tool-calling, eval harnesses, retrieval and context systems, CI/CD or developer platforms, and AI-native coding workflows in a real repo
- Experience as a forward-deployed, solutions, or platform engineer embedded with customers, or as a founding engineer who owned an AI product end to end
About Cursor
SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today, SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary and expanding consciousness to the stars.
SpaceXSI is building Super Intelligence to help humanity understand the universe. Our teams are building the full Super Intelligence stack: from our Colossus supercomputers, to Grok models, to our suite of applications, including Grok Bot, Grok Build, Grok Imagine, Grok Voice, and X. We're creating a powerful flywheel where more compute trains better models, better models power more useful products, and what we learn from people using those products shapes what we build next.
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Company facts
- Money raised
- $3.3BSum of funding rounds on record
- Newest round
- Series DNov 13, 2025
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