Regional Director, Field Engineering - Verticals

Cursor; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Cursor is hiring a Regional Director, Field Engineering to build and lead a high-impact pre-sales Field Engineering team within one of our core industry verticals. You will partner with AEs to drive technical discovery, demos, and proofs of concept with Fortune 500 accounts, coaching the team and ensuring credibility for Cursor's AI-native development platform.

This hands-on leadership role requires vertical expertise, technical fluency, and a track record of scaling engineering-to-sales motion

Qualifications

• Leadership experience in pre-sales or field engineering
• Strong collaboration with Sales, Product, and Engineering
• Experience building teams and delivering enterprise evaluations

Responsibilities

• Lead and scale a Field Engineering team supporting enterprise opportunities within the assigned vertical
• Partner with Sales leadership to drive technical discovery, demos, and proofs of concept with strategic accounts
• Own the 0-to-1 build-out of the vertical Field Engineering practice, including events, collateral, and executive relationships

Job description

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 a Regional Director, Field Engineering to build and lead a high-impact pre-sales Field Engineering team within one of our key industry verticals: High Tech, Retail, Life Sciences, Financial Services, Public Sector, Aerospace, or Healthcare. 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 inside a specific vertical. 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 with the largest and most complex accounts in your vertical. 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 for your industry. This is a hands-on, entrepreneurial leadership role for someone who combines deep vertical expertise, technical fluency, strong people management, and the drive to build something from scratch.

What you'll do

Lead, coach, and scale a team of Field Engineers supporting enterprise opportunities within your vertical. Partner closely with Sales leadership and AEs to drive high-quality technical discovery, demos, and POCs with strategic and Fortune 500 accounts. Own the 0-to-1 build-out of the vertical Field Engineering practice — including field events, industry-specific collateral, customer stories, and deep executive relationship building. Establish best practices for evaluations, proof