How Cursor deploys AI inside the enterprise Cursor's Pauline Brunet explains how her team of Forward Deployed Engineers help organizations implement agents — essentially setting up software factories. Forward deployed engineering has quickly become one of the most prominent roles in enterprise AI. Sitting somewhere between software engineering, product development and customer implementation, forward deployed engineers [FDEs] work directly with organizations to implement AI capabilities. At Cursor, the role is especially ambitious. Pauline Brunet, the company’s VP of Forward Deployed Engineeri