The one-line mission and why it exists

Cursor's framing for this role is blunt: you teach the future of software engineering. Strip the poetry and it's a working job - you make it legible, in code and in writing, what a developer can actually build with Cursor's agents, SDK, CLI and automations.

Read this section as the role contract. The diagram or table names the surface area, but the interview signal is whether you can turn it into a clear operating claim: what you own, what you do not own, what evidence proves the work is working and where judgment matters.

Cursor sells a product whose ceiling almost nobody has found yet. Most developers use Agent modeCursor's full-capability mode: the AI can read the codebase, write and edit files, move them and run terminal commands. Contrast with Ask mode, which is read-only. Press Enter for the full definition. and Tab and stop there. The API, the Agent SDKA programmatic interface for running Cursor agents from your own scripts, services or CI, locally or in the cloud. Press Enter for the full definition., MCPModel Context Protocol. A standard that lets an AI agent pull in context from outside the repo, like Jira tickets or internal docs. Press Enter for the full definition. servers, Background Agents, Rules and AGENTS.md, automations that wire all of it together - that surface is wide and the gap between what's possible and what people know is possible is exactly the gap this role closes.

That gap is where growth lives. A developer who discovers they can script a coding agent against their own repo or run a fleet of background agents overnight becomes a power user and usually a loud one. You are the person who shows them the path.