How Cursor's Forward Deployed Engineers build AI software factories in the enterprise

How Cursor deploys AI inside the enterprise

Cursor VP Pauline Brunet explained at AIEWF how her Forward Deployed Engineers embed Cursor's agents across the full software lifecycle—planning, coding, testing, and deployment—to build an 'AI software factory.' The team hires engineers with 5+ years of experience and plans to grow 10x by year-end. The main enterprise bottleneck: individual early adopters are productive, but scaling long-running agents across teams requires top-down leadership commitment.

Why it matters: Cursor publicly explains its Forward Deployed Engineering team for the first time, with a novel role and operational detail—hitting all three HKR axes. But the piece is an interview recap from Latent Space, not an official product update or data release, so information density...