Field Engineer

re-zoo-me; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Anysphere is seeking a Field Engineer to serve as the technical face of Cursor in the field, helping enterprise customers evaluate Cursor, run proofs of concept, and see AI value in engineering workflows.

You’ll partner with Sales, Product, and Engineering to scope solutions, demonstrate capabilities, and influence product direction as a trusted technical advisor. This role is customer-facing, combining deep technical fluency with strong communication skills to drive adoption.

Qualifications

• Strong communication and executive presence.
• Hands-on technical ability with software development lifecycles.
• Experience in Field Engineering, Solutions Architecture, Pre-Sales, or Consulting for enterprise software.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Account Executives to lead technical discovery, demos, and proof-of-concept engagements.
• Build trusted relationships with engineering leaders, architects, and developers, serving as their technical advisor.
• Translate customer requirements into solution designs, guiding them on best practices for rollout, prompt strategy, and context configuration.
• Develop and deliver technical presentations, whiteboard sessions, and hands-on workshops tailored to customer needs.
• Act as the customer’s technical advocate internally, influencing roadmap priorities and escalating feedback to Product and Engineering.
• Collaborate with post-sales teams to ensure a smooth handoff and successful customer onboarding.
• Maintain deep knowledge of Cursor’s capabilities and competitive landscape to position our value effectively.
• Support strategic account planning and help drive expansion opportunities with technical validation.

Job description

San Francisco, CA Not Applicable Engineering and Information Technology Software Development

Cursor is a coding agent for building ambitious software. Our goal is to help you engineer anything. Our work includes training the world’s most widely used coding models, creating infrastructure that supports billions of requests per day, and building better ways for humans and AIs to work together.

Our mission is to automate coding. The first step in our journey is to build the best tool for professional programmers, using a combination of inventive research, design, and engineering. Our organization is very flat, and our team is small and talent dense. We particularly like people who are truth-seeking, passionate, and creative. We enjoy spirited debate, crazy ideas, and shipping code.

About The Role
We’re hiring Field Engineers to partner with prospective and strategic enterprise customers. As a Field Engineer, you’ll be the technical face of Anysphere in the field, helping customers evaluate Cursor, guiding them through proofs of concept, and ensuring they see the full value of AI in their engineering workflows. You’ll work hand-in-hand with Sales, Product, and Engineering to scope solutions, demonstrate capabilities, and act as a trusted advisor to technical stakeholders. This is a highly customer-facing role where you’ll combine deep technical fluency with strong communication skills to drive adoption and influence product direction.

What You’ll Do

• Partner with Account Executives to lead technical discovery, demos, and proof-of-concept engagements
• Build trusted relationships with engineering leaders, architects, and developers, serving as their technical advisor
• Translate customer requirements into solution designs, guiding them on best practices for rollout, prompt strategy, and context configuration
• Develop and deliver technical presentations, whiteboard sessions, and hands-on workshops tailored to customer needs
• Act as the customer’s technical advocate internally, influencing roadmap priorities and escalating feedback to Product and Engineering
• Collaborate with post-sales teams to ensure a smooth handoff and successful customer onboarding
• Maintain deep knowledge of Cursor’s capabilities and competitive landscape to position our value effectively
• Support strategic account planning and help drive expansion opportunities with technical validation

You may be a fit if

• You have strong communication skills and executive presence, equally comfortable coding alongside developers or presenting to CTOs
• You have a deep understanding of the software development lifecycle, modern engineering org structures, and developer productivity challenges
• You have hands-on technical ability, you don’t need to be a full-time engineer, but you should be fluent in technical workflows, AI tooling, and debugging complex environments
• You are customer-obsessed with a knack for translating technical details into business impact
• You have experience in Field Engineering, Solutions Architecture, Pre-Sales, or Consulting for enterprise software
• You thrive in a startup environment: resourceful, adaptable, and proactive in creating solutions

Our mission is to automate coding. The first step in our journey is to build the best tool for professional programmers, using a combination of inventive research, design, and engineering. Our organization is very flat, and our team is small and talent dense. We particularly like people who are truth-seeking, passionate, and creative. We enjoy spirited debate, crazy ideas, and shipping code.

What You’ll Do

• Partner with Account Executives to lead technical discovery, demos, and proof-of-concept engagements
• Build trusted relationships with engineering leaders, architects, and developers, serving as their technical advisor
• Translate customer requirements into solution designs, guiding them on best practices for rollout, prompt strategy, and context configuration
• Develop and deliver technical presentations, whiteboard sessions, and hands-on workshops tailored to customer needs
• Act as the customer’s technical advocate internally, influencing roadmap priorities and escalating feedback to Product and Engineering
• Collaborate with post-sales teams to ensure a smooth handoff and successful customer onboarding
• Maintain deep knowledge of Cursor’s capabilities and competitive landscape to position our value effectively
• Support strategic account planning and help drive expansion opportunities with technical validation

You may be a fit if

• You have strong communication skills and executive presence, equally comfortable coding alongside developers or presenting to CTOs
• You have a deep understanding of the software development lifecycle, modern engineering org structures, and developer productivity challenges
• You have hands-on technical ability, you don’t need to be a full-time engineer, but you should be fluent in technical workflows, AI tooling, and debugging complex environments
• You are customer-obsessed with a knack for translating technical details into business impact
• You have experience in Field Engineering, Solutions Architecture, Pre-Sales, or Consulting for enterprise software
• You thrive in a startup environment: resourceful, adaptable, and proactive in creating solutions