Regional Director, Forward Deployed Engineering
Anysphere, Inc. (doing business as Cursor)Visit Anysphere, Inc. (doing business as Cursor) website
Cursor is an AI coding-agent product operated by Anysphere, Inc.; it was acquired by SpaceX in August 2026 and continues to operate.
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About Anysphere, Inc. (doing business as Cursor)
Cursor provides AI-assisted software-development tools, including desktop and CLI coding agents, autonomous cloud agents, code review, and enterprise offerings.
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About the Role
You lead and scale a team of 6–8 Forward Deployed Engineers working on strategic enterprise accounts. You partner with Sales on discovery and deal strategy, act as executive technical sponsor, ensure delivery quality, coach FDEs, hire talent, and build the partner FDE track for GSI and consulting partners.
Requirements
- 8+ years leading technical teams that build and ship in production
- Experience coding in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript
- Built and owned AI-native workflows in production and debugged model failures
- Ability to diagnose complex enterprise engineering environments and scope engagements
- Built and scaled IC-level technical teams
Responsibilities
- Own technical discovery to executive close with Sales and Account teams
- Build and present proposals with clear ROI
- Sell the vision and plan to C-suite stakeholders
- Drive deal strategy on strategic accounts
- Serve as executive technical sponsor on priority engagements
- Ensure delivery quality across team projects
- Escalate product gaps to Product and Engineering
- Lead, hire, develop, and coach a team of 6–8 FDEs
- Build reusable playbooks
- Build and scale the partner FDE track