RVP, Field Engineering, Public Sector

Cursor is seeking a Regional Vice President for Field Engineering in the Public Sector to lead technical pre-sales for government accounts. This hands-on leadership role requires strong technical fluency and people management skills. 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.

• •Build and lead a Field Engineering team supporting Federal and SLED enterprise opportunities
• •Partner closely with Public Sector Sales leadership and AEs to drive high quality technical discovery, demos, and POCs within government evaluation processes
• •Establish best practices for evaluations, proof-of-concept execution, and technical deal strategy that account for public sector requirements — FedRAMP, StateRAMP, air-gapped/on-prem environments, security authorization processes
• •Serve as an escalation point for complex customer evaluations and high-stakes public sector deals
• •Hire, onboard, and develop top-tier Field Engineering talent with public sector or regulated-environment domain experience; set clear expectations and career paths
• •Act as the voice of the field internally, feeding agency and institutional customer insights back to Product and Engineering to shape the public sector roadmap
• •Partner with Legal, Security, and Compliance to ensure technical evaluations meet the bar required to sell into government environments
• •Ensure tight handoffs with post-sales teams to support successful onboarding and adoption in public sector accounts
• •Maintain deep knowledge of Cursor's product, roadmap, and competitive landscape, plus the public sector security and compliance landscape