Regional Director, Forward Deployed Engineering - Public Sector

CURSOR; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 210,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with customer teams, building production-grade AI workflows and delivering lasting impact in regional engagements. The role emphasizes leadership, scoping complex projects, and a strong customer-facing technical presence.

As Regional Director, you will lead and scale the FDE team across key public sector customers, manage engagements from discovery through delivery, and partner with GSIs and consulting firms to extend the work.

Qualifications

• Experience directly managing a team of engineers who build and ship production software.
• Experience building and deploying AI-powered workflows in production environments.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a team of FDEs in your region: hire, set clear technical performance standards and career paths, and coach the team on scoping and delivery of FDE engagements.
• Own scoping for PubSec FDE projects: run discovery and architecture reviews, surface integration and infrastructure constraints, and turn ambiguous customer problems into time-boxed proposals with clear ROI for six- and seven-figure engagements.
• Hold the delivery quality bar across your teams engagements: tight scoping, milestone tracking, technical standards, and clean handoffs to customer engineering teams.
• Serve as executive technical sponsor and primary customer point of contact on your regions highest-priority engagements, owning delivery and the relationship from IC engineers to the C-suite, and stepping in directly where the stakes are highest.
• Generate product feedback loop with Product and Engineering with enough detail to drive roadmap decisions, and turn what works into reusable solutions and product surface areas for all customers.

Skills

Team management

AI workflows

Engineering leadership

C-suite communication

Job description

SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today, SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary and expanding consciousness to the stars.
SpaceXSI is building Super Intelligence to help humanity understand the universe. Our teams are building the full Super Intelligence stack: from our Colossus supercomputers, to Grok models, to our suite of applications, including Grok Bot, Grok Build, Grok Imagine, Grok Voice, and X. We're creating a powerful flywheel where more compute trains better models, better models power more useful products, and what we learn from people using those products shapes what we build next.

About the role

Our Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) don't advise from the sidelines. They embed with customer teams, build production-grade AI coding workflows alongside them, and leave behind habits that keep paying off after the engagement ends. As Regional Director, you'll lead and scale this team across our most important public sector customers, own engagements from technical discovery through delivery, and build the partner track that extends this work through GSIs and consulting firms. Success is measured by whats different in a customers org at day 30, not by what got shipped.

Responsibilities

Build and lead a team of FDEs in your region: hire, set clear technical performance standards and career paths, and coach the team on scoping and delivery of FDE engagements

Own scoping for PubSec FDE projects: run discovery and architecture reviews, surface integration and infrastructure constraints, and turn ambiguous customer problems into time-boxed proposals with clear ROI for six- and seven-figure engagements.

Hold the delivery quality bar across your teams engagements: tight scoping, milestone tracking, technical standards, and clean handoffs to customer engineering teams.

Serve as executive technical sponsor and primary customer point of contact on your regions highest-priority engagements, owning delivery and the relationship from IC engineers to the C-suite, and stepping in directly where the stakes are highest.

Generate product feedback loop with Product and Engineering with enough detail to drive roadmap decisions, and turn what works into reusable solutions and product surface areas for all customers.

Contribute to the launch and scaling of the PupSec partner FDE track: train and enable GSI and consulting partners, and hold them to the same quality bar as the in-house team.

Basic Qualifications

Experience directly managing a team of engineers who build and ship production software

Experience building and deploying AI-powered workflows in production environments

Preferred Skills and Experience

U.S. citizenship required. Active security clearance (Public Trust, Secret, Top Secret, or TS/SCI) or ability to obtain one.

Leadership experience in forward deployed engineering, data science, machine learning engineering or software engineers

Scoping six- and seven-figure technical engagements with Sales and presenting them to C-suite and engineering leadership buyers

Enabling GSI or consulting partners to deliver technical engagements

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