Field Engineer, Public Sector

Cursor

$110K — $130K *
Education, Government & Non-Profit
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Strong communication skills with executive presence
  • Understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
  • Hands-on technical fluency in workflows and AI tooling
  • Experience in Field Engineering or Solutions Architecture
  • Familiarity with federal, defense, or regulated tech industries
  • Ability to navigate complex stakeholder environments
  • Eligibility for federal security clearance (active clearance preferred)

Responsibilities

  • Partner with Account Executives for technical discovery and POCs
  • Build relationships with engineering and security stakeholders
  • Analyze developer workflows in high-security environments
  • Connect Cursor's value to client outcomes like productivity
  • Deliver technical presentations and workshops to diverse audiences
  • Advocate for customers within internal Product and Engineering teams
  • Collaborate with post-sales to ensure successful onboarding

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional growth in a dynamic environment
  • Collaborative work culture with cross-functional teams
  • Engagement with strategic customers in the Public Sector
  • Chance to influence software delivery processes
  • Access to educational resources and market insights
Full Job Description
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 Cursor 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)

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