RVP, Field Engineering, Public Sector

Responsibilities

• ▹Build and lead a Field Engineering team supporting Federal and SLED enterprise opportunities
• ▹Partner closely with Public Sector Sales leadership to drive high-quality technical discovery, demos, and POCs within government evaluation processes
• ▹Establish best practices for evaluations and POC execution that account for FedRAMP, StateRAMP, and air-gapped/on-prem requirements
• ▹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
• ▹Partner with Legal, Security, and Compliance to ensure technical evaluations meet the bar required to sell into government environments
• ▹Feed agency and institutional customer insights back to Product and Engineering to shape the public sector roadmap

Requirements

• ▹6+ years experience leading Field Engineers, Solutions Architects, or Pre-Sales teams in enterprise software, with meaningful time in Federal and/or SLED environments
• ▹Direct experience navigating public sector technical evaluation processes: security authorizations, compliance reviews, and procurement-driven POC requirements
• ▹Strong technical foundation and fluency in modern software development workflows and AI tooling
• ▹Proven ability to partner effectively with Sales while maintaining technical integrity and customer trust
• ▹Comfortable operating in customer-facing, high-pressure deal environments and guiding teams through complexity
• ▹Strong communication skills and executive presence, able to engage agency technical leadership, CTOs, and compliance stakeholders

Soft skills

About the company

Cursor, built by Anysphere, is on a mission to automate coding by building the best tool for professional programmers. The team is flat, small, and talent-dense, valuing truth-seeking, passion, and creativity.