Regional Director, Field Engineering, Public Sector

Our mission is to automate coding. The first step in our journey is to build the best tool for professional programmers, using a combination of inventive research, design, and engineering. Our organization is very flat, and our team is small and talent dense. We particularly like people who are truth-seeking, passionate, and creative. We enjoy spirited debate, crazy ideas, and shipping code. About the role We're hiring a Regional Director, Public Sector Field Engineering to build and lead SpaceXAI's technical pre-sales organization supporting Federal, State, Local, and Education (SLED) accounts. This is a founding leadership role for the vertical — you'll be responsible for standing up the Field Engineering team, technical pre-sales motion, and evaluation playbook that brings Cursor's AI-native development platform into government agencies, public institutions, and the contractors that serve them. As RD, Public Sector Field Engineering, you'll manage and develop Field Engineers who partner closely with Public Sector AEs to run technical discovery, demos, and proofs of concept inside government procurement and security constraints. 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 for public sector engineering organizations. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who combines technical fluency, public sector domain credibility, stron