Regional Director, Field Engineering

Cursor is hiring a Regional Director, Field Engineering in San Francisco, United States. Level rates it ; you can apply on Cursor.

Level's read on this job

On Level's scale, this role is Works on AI ●●●○: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
The posting mentions Grok among its tools and skills.
Level classes it as an executive role.
Cursor has 125 other open roles on Level.

AI in this role

grok

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 a Regional Director, Field Engineering to build and lead a high impact pre-sales Field Engineering team supporting our fastest growing enterprise accounts. 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.

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. 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 on the market.

This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who combines technical fluency, strong people management, and excellent cross-functional judgment.

What you’ll do

Lead, coach, and scale a team of Field Engineers supporting enterprise opportunities
Partner closely with Sales leadership and AEs to drive high quality technical discovery, demos, and POCs
Establish best practices for evaluations, proof-of-concept execution, and technical deal strategy
Serve as an escalation point for complex customer evaluations and high-stakes enterprise deals
Hire, onboard, and develop top-tier Field Engineering talent; set clear expectations and career paths
Act as the voice of the field internally, feeding customer and prospect insights back to Product and Engineering
Ensure tight handoffs with post-sales teams to support successful customer onboarding and adoption
Maintain deep knowledge of Cursor’s product, roadmap, and competitive landscape

You may be a fit if

You have 4+ years experience leading Field Engineers, Solutions Architects, or Pre-Sales teams in enterprise software
You have a strong technical foundation and fluency in modern software development workflows, AI tooling, and developer productivity
You have proven your ability to partner effectively with Sales while maintaining technical integrity and customer trust
You are comfortable operating in customer-facing, high-pressure deal environments and guiding teams through complexity
You have strong communication skills and executive presence, are able to engage developers, architects, and CTOs
You have a builder mindset: you thrive in fast-moving, startup environments and enjoy creating structure where little exists

How we rate this

Regional Director, Field Engineering at Cursor rates 69 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.

Classification

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.

Key facts

Regional Director, Field Engineering is an open job at Cursor.
Level rates this role AI Level 3 of 4: Works on AI.
The role is based in San Francisco.
The job was posted on January 23, 2026.
Seniority: executive.
Applications are handled by Cursor. Apply on Cursor

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

Grok

Questions you could be asked

What's a project where you used Grok hands-on?
Describe a typical day in a role like this one: which parts run through AI directly?
If you removed AI from this role, what would be left, and how do you decide what still needs a human?

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List these exact terms on your resume: Grok. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
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