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Forward Deployed Engineer - India

Bengaluru
Level
Mid

Not stated in the posting: salary, work type, visa.

Open. First seen 28 September 2026.

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About the role

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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.

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. This role will be based in all 3 cities: Bengaluru, New Delhi and Mumbai.

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 → fix pipelines, spec → 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 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’re comfortable leading discovery conversations and being accountable for customer outcomes
  • 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)
  • You’re strong in Python and TypeScript/JavaScript and can ramp quickly on new stacks

What this role asks for

Particular to this role

JavaScript · TypeScript

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Python

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The team: Forward Deployment HIRES STEADILY

This role is one of 8 open in Forward Deployment. 6 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in June: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

JavaScript (8 of 8), Python (8 of 8), TypeScript (8 of 8), CI/CD (4 of 8), Machine Learning (4 of 8)

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