Field Engineering - Japan

Cursor
APJ
Career-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Geared toward mid-level technical professionals comfortable with customer-facing roles in Japan, combining deep technical fluency with strong communication skills.

Best fit for

  • Technical professionals with experience in enterprise software pre-sales or consulting.
    — “Field Engineering, Solutions Architecture, Pre-Sales, or Consulting for enterprise software
  • Individuals who thrive in startup environments with resourcefulness and adaptability.
    — “thrive in a startup environment: resourceful, adaptable, and proactive
  • Candidates with a knack for translating technical details into business impact.
    — “knack for translating technical details into business impact

Things to consider

  • This role requires frequent interaction with enterprise customers and internal teams.
    — “highly customer-facing role where you’ll combine deep technical fluency
  • You will need to maintain deep knowledge of competitive landscape.
    — “Maintain deep knowledge of Cursor’s capabilities and competitive landscape

How to stand out

  • Demonstrate experience in leading technical discovery and proof-of-concept engagements.
    — “lead technical discovery, demos, and proof-of-concept engagements
  • Highlight instances where you influenced product direction based on customer feedback.
    — “influencing roadmap priorities and escalating feedback to Product and Engineering
  • Showcase your ability to deliver tailored technical presentations and workshops.
    — “Develop and deliver technical presentations, whiteboard sessions, and hands-on workshops
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · TeamLevel · Mid Level

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • technical-discovery
  • customer-adoption
  • product-roadmap-influence
Typical background
field-engineeringsolutions-architecturepre-sales

Skills & requirements

Required

CommunicationTechnical-fluencySoftware-development-lifecycleAi-toolingCustomer-relationship-management

Preferred

Enterprise-softwareStartup-environment

Stack & domain

PythonReactLeadershipCommunicationFinanceHealthcare

About the role

Original posting from Cursor via Ashby

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 Field Engineers to partner with prospective and strategic enterprise customers. As a Field Engineer, you’ll be the technical face of Anysphere in the field, helping customers evaluate Cursor, guiding them through proofs of concept, and ensuring they see the full value of AI in their engineering workflows.

You’ll work hand-in-hand with Sales, Product, and Engineering to scope solutions, demonstrate capabilities, and act as a trusted advisor to technical stakeholders. This is a highly customer-facing role where you’ll combine deep technical fluency with strong communication skills to drive adoption and influence product direction.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

  • Partner with Account Executives to lead technical discovery, demos, and proof-of-concept engagements
  • Build trusted relationships with engineering leaders, architects, and developers, serving as their technical advisor
  • Translate customer requirements into solution designs, guiding them on best practices for rollout, prompt strategy, and context configuration
  • Develop and deliver technical presentations, whiteboard sessions, and hands-on workshops tailored to customer needs
  • Act as the customer’s technical advocate internally, influencing roadmap priorities and escalating feedback to Product and Engineering
  • Collaborate with post-sales teams to ensure a smooth handoff and successful customer onboarding
  • Maintain deep knowledge of Cursor’s capabilities and competitive landscape to position our value effectively
  • Support strategic account planning and help drive expansion opportunities with technical validation

YOU MAY BE A FIT IF

  • You have strong communication skills and executive presence, equally comfortable coding alongside developers or presenting to CTOs.
  • You have a deep understanding of the software development lifecycle, modern engineering org structures, and developer productivity challenges
  • You have hands-on technical ability, and while you don’t need to be a full-time engineer, but you should be fluent in technical workflows, AI tooling, and debugging complex environments
  • You are customer-obsessed with a knack for translating technical details into business impact
  • You have experience in Field Engineering, Solutions Architecture, Pre-Sales, or Consulting for enterprise software
  • You thrive in a startup environment: resourceful, adaptable, and proactive in creating solutions

Source: Cursor careers (Ashby)

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