CursorField Engineer, Public Sector
Cursor is hiring a Field Engineer, Public Sector for a remote role open to applicants in United States. Level rates it ; you can apply on Cursor.
Level's read on this job
- Works on AI ●●●○ is how Level rates this role: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- This is listed as a remote role.
- The posting mentions Grok, technical sales and developer workflows among its tools and skills.
- Cursor has 125 other open roles on Level.
AI in this role
Drive adoption of agentic coding tools within public sector and federal defense agencies as a technical field engineer.
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 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.
You'll work hand-in-hand with Sales, Product, and Engineering as a deal partner, not a demo resource. You'll scope solutions, demonstrate capabilities, and act as a trusted advisor across the stakeholders that matter in PubSec: engineering leaders, architects, developers, security, procurement, and program leads. This is a highly customer-facing role where deep technical fluency, commercial instinct, and clear communication drive adoption and influence product direction.
What you'll do
Partner with AEs to own technical discovery, demos, POCs, and technical 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 / constrained 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
You may be a fit if
You have strong communication skills and executive presence, equally comfortable developing alongside engineers or presenting to CTOs, CISOs, and program leaders
You understand the SDLC and can connect technical detail to mission and operational impact
You have hands-on technical fluency (not full-time eng): workflows, AI tooling, complex / constrained environments
You have deal-partner strategic instincts: co-own with AEs and navigate complex, multi-threaded stakeholder maps
You have experience in Field Engineering, Solutions Architecture, Pre-Sales, or Consulting, ideally in federal, defense, or highly regulated tech
You're excited by Public Sector and comfortable learning agency buying motions, security expectations, and partner ecosystems fast
You hold or can obtain a federal security clearance (active clearance is a plus)
How we rate this
Field Engineer, Public Sector 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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Questions you could be asked
- Tell me about a project where technical sales was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where developer workflows was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where public sector was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where ai coding was part of your work. What did you do?
- 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: Technical Sales, Developer Workflows, Public Sector, AI Coding, 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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