Regional Director, Forward Deployed Engineering · · San Francisco; New York; Austin Apply →

Cursor; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Cursor is seeking a Regional Director, Forward Deployed Engineering to lead and scale a high-impact team serving strategic enterprise accounts in the United States. The role combines hands-on technical leadership with executive stakeholder management to ensure fast, high-quality delivery and strong customer relationships.

You will coach engineers, drive scoping accuracy, and develop reusable playbooks while expanding partner channels to extend the FDE motion.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience leading technical teams that build and ship in production.
• Experience in enterprise technology projects and managing multi-stakeholder engagements.
• Ability to scope and deliver complex AI/ML workflows in production.

Responsibilities

• Lead and scale a team of Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) across strategic enterprise accounts.
• Own delivery quality: scoping, milestones, and skilled handoffs to customer teams.
• Build playbooks and enable partner FDE tracks to extend velocity at scale.

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

We're building a Forward Deployed Engineering team to close the gap between the value our enterprise customers expect from Cursor and the value they're actually getting. FDEs don't advise, they embed directly with customer engineering teams, build production-grade Cursor workflows, and transfer the habits and culture that compound long after the engagement ends. The measure of success is what's different at day 30, not what got shipped.

We're looking for a Regional Director, Forward Deployed Engineering to lead and help scale this team. You'll manage a growing team of FDEs working across our most strategic enterprise accounts, own what makes a world-class FDE engagement, and stay close enough to the work to expedite, coach, and course-correct in real time. You will serve as the primary point of contact for customers, owning both project delivery and the day-to-day relationship, while also identifying and scoping new opportunities. You'll also build our partner FDE track — training and enabling GSI and consulting partners who extend this motion at scale.

This is a hands‑on leadership role for someone who combines deep technical credibility, strong people management, and the judgment to keep engagements scoped tight, delivered fast, and worth repeating.

What you’ll do

Sell

Own the full arc from technical discovery to executive close — partnering with Sales and Account teams to qualify opportunities, leading architecture reviews, surfacing integration complexity and infrastructure constraints, and scoping engagements with enough precision to de‑risk delivery before a line of code is written

Build and present proposals that translate ambiguous customer problems into concrete, time‑boxed deliverables with clear ROI

Sell the vision and the plan to C‑suite stakeholders who need to believe in both the outcome and the team delivering it

Drive deal strategy on strategic accounts; your technical credibility is a direct lever on close rates for six‑ and seven‑figure engagements

Deliver

Serve as executive technical sponsor on your region's highest‑priority engagements and manage stakeholder relationships from IC engineers to C‑suite

Ensure delivery quality across your team's projects: appropriate scoping, milestone tracking, technical standards, and clean handoffs to customer engineering teamsTranslate between business outcomes and technical implementation in both directions

Identify and elevate product gaps, integration friction, and recurring customer pain back to Product and Engineering with enough specificity to drive roadmap decisions

Manage active engagements: escalation on complex builds, coach FDEs on scoping and delivery decisions, and step in directly on accounts where the stakes are highest

Build reusable playbooks that make the broader FDE org more capable over time

Manage People

Lead, develop, and scale a team of 6–8 Forward Deployed Engineers working strategic FDE projects

Hire top‑tier FDE talent; set clear expectations, technical performance standards, and career growth paths for a team where "excellent" means actually shipping in production

Coach FDEs through the hardest problems in the field — scoping under deal pressure, building alongside senior technical stakeholders, and knowing when to protect scope vs. when to flex

Build and scale the partner FDE track — train, enable, and hold the quality bar for GSI and consulting partners who carry the FDE motion forward at volume

You may be a fit if

You have 8+ years of experience leading technical teams that build and ship in production — Forward Deployed Engineering, Solutions Engineering, or a similar function where writing and reviewing code is part of the job

You’ve built and owned AI‑native workflows in production, not just prototypes, and have debugged real‑world model failures

You can diagnose a complex enterprise engineering environment quickly, identify the highest‑leverage intervention, and scope a meaningful engagement

You've built and scaled IC‑level technical teams and know what excellence looks like in the field: sharp scoping, clean delivery, and knowledge that stays at the customer long after the engagement closes

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