How Cursor Deploys AI Inside the Enterprise: Forward Deployed Engineers and "Software Factories"

Summary

In an interview with Latent Space, Cursor VP Pauline Brunet described how the company drives enterprise adoption through a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) model: senior engineers who go on-site, work inside a customer's systems and tools, and build applications that solve problems at scale. Cursor plans to grow this team roughly tenfold by year-end, hiring engineers with 5+ years of experience and customer-facing backgrounds from firms like Spotify and Palantir. The FDEs double as a feedback loo