CursorField Engineer - India
Cursor is hiring a Field Engineer - India in Bengaluru, India. Level rates it ; you can apply on Cursor.
Level's read on this job
- Level rates this role Works on AI ●●●○: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- Tools and skills the posting cites include Grok, customer facing and technical advising.
- Level classifies it as a mid-level role.
- Level lists 125 other open roles at Cursor.
AI in this role
Field Engineer to help enterprise customers evaluate and adopt AI-powered engineering tools and workflows.
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 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, and while 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
How we rate this
Field Engineer - India at Cursor rates 65 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.
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- Tell me about a project where customer facing was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where technical advising was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where sales engineering was part of your work. What did you do?
- How do you structure and test a prompt to get consistent output from a language model?
- Walk me through how you've used Grok in your day-to-day work.
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- List these exact terms on your resume: Customer Facing, Technical Advising, Sales Engineering, Prompt engineering, and Grok. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
- Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
- Show where AI is part of your daily process, not a one-off project. This role expects it to be a running habit.
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