Regional Director, Field Engineering

We’re hiring a Regional Director, Field Engineering to build and lead a high impact pre-sales Field Engineering team supporting our fastest growing enterprise accounts. This role sits at the intersection of Sales, Product, and Engineering and is responsible for ensuring our technical pre-sales motion scales with quality, speed, and credibility.

As the Regional Director, Field Engineering, you’ll manage and develop Field Engineers who partner closely with AEs to run technical discovery, demos, and proofs of concept. You’ll also stay close to customers and deals yourself, coaching in real time, unblocking complex evaluations, and ensuring Cursor is positioned as the best AI-native development platform on the market.

This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who combines technical fluency, strong people management, and excellent cross-functional judgment.

Lead, coach, and scale a team of Field Engineers supporting enterprise opportunities

Partner closely with Sales leadership and AEs to drive high quality technical discovery, demos, and POCs

Establish best practices for evaluations, proof-of-concept execution, and technical deal strategy

Serve as an escalation point for complex customer evaluations and high-stakes enterprise deals

Hire, onboard, and develop top-tier Field Engineering talent; set clear expectations and career paths

Act as the voice of the field internally, feeding customer and prospect insights back to Product and Engineering

Ensure tight handoffs with post-sales teams to support successful customer onboarding and adoption

Maintain deep knowledge of Cursor’s product, roadmap, and competitive landscape

You have 4+ years experience leading Field Engineers, Solutions Architects, or Pre-Sales teams in enterprise software

You have a strong technical foundation and fluency in modern software development workflows, AI tooling, and developer productivity

You have proven your ability to partner effectively with Sales while maintaining technical integrity and customer trust

You are comfortable operating in customer-facing, high-pressure deal environments and guiding teams through complexity

You have strong communication skills and executive presence, are able to engage developers, architects, and CTOs

You have a builder mindset: you thrive in fast-moving, startup environments and enjoy creating structure where little exists