Public Sector Field Engineer: Trusted Tech Advocate

Openkrill; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Openkrill is hiring Field Engineers to partner with prospective and strategic customers across Public Sector.

You'll be the technical face of SpaceXAI for the federal civilian and defense agencies modernizing how software gets written for the mission: helping developers, engineering leaders, and program teams evaluate Cursor, running proofs of concept, and making sure they see the full value of agentic coding in their real workflows.

Qualifications

• Strong communication skills and executive presence.
• Understand SDLC and connect technical detail to mission impact.
• Hands-on technical fluency in developer workflows and AI tooling.
• Experience in Field Engineering, Solutions Architecture, Pre-Sales, or Consulting.
• Familiarity with federal, defense, or highly regulated tech.

Responsibilities

• Partner with AEs to own technical discovery, demos, POCs, and validation for new deals and expansion.
• Build trusted relationships across engineering, security, product and IT stakeholders.
• Go deep in mission-critical and high-security environments: developer workflows, AI tooling, complex setups.
• Help customers connect Cursor to outcomes that matter: developer productivity, secure software delivery, and mission velocity.
• Deliver technical presentations, whiteboards, and workshops for technical and executive audiences.
• Act as the customer's technical advocate internally with Product and Engineering.
• Partner with post-sales to hand off cleanly and set up onboarding for success.

Skills

Communication

Executive presence

Technical fluency

SDLC understanding

Deal-partner instincts

Field engineering experience

Job description

Openkrill is hiring Field Engineers to partner with prospective and strategic customers across Public Sector.

You'll be the technical face of SpaceXAI for the federal civilian and defense agencies modernizing how software gets written for the mission: helping developers, engineering leaders, and program teams evaluate Cursor, running proofs of concept, and making sure they see the full value of agentic coding in their real workflows.