Field Engineer, Life Sciences

Cursor
United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringSkills: ["Communication","Executive presence","Customer obsession","Trusted advising","Stakeholder management","Problem-solving"]

Serve as Cursor’s technical face for strategic Life Sciences enterprise customers, helping them evaluate Cursor and run proofs of concept. Partner with Sales, Product, and Engineering to scope solutions, deliver technical presentations and workshops, and translate AI tooling into outcomes such as faster R&D cycles and a shorter path from lab to market. Act as a trusted advisor across scientific computing, R&D, and commercial IT, then help hand off for successful onboarding.

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Field Engineer, Life Sciences

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Job Summary

Serve as Cursor’s technical face for strategic Life Sciences enterprise customers, helping them evaluate Cursor and run proofs of concept. Partner with Sales, Product, and Engineering to scope solutions, deliver technical presentations and workshops, and translate AI tooling into outcomes such as faster R&D cycles and a shorter path from lab to market. Act as a trusted advisor across scientific computing, R&D, and commercial IT, then help hand off for successful onboarding.
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Partner with AEs to own technical discovery, demos, POCs, and expansion with technical validation.
  • •Build trusted relationships across engineering, scientific computing, R&D, and commercial IT.
  • •Go deep in research-heavy and regulated environments to evaluate developer workflows and AI tooling.
  • •Deliver technical presentations, whiteboards, and workshops for scientific and commercial audiences.
  • •Act as the customer’s technical advocate internally and coordinate a clean handoff for onboarding success.

Key Requirements

  • •Strong communication skills with executive presence, comfortable coding alongside developers and presenting to CTOs and scientific leaders.
  • •Understand the SDLC and connect technical detail to business and scientific impact.
  • •Hands-on technical fluency with workflows, AI tooling, and complex environments (not full-time engineering).
  • •Deal-partner instinct to co-own discovery, navigate stakeholder maps, and support technical validation.
  • •Experience in Field Engineering, Solutions Architecture, Pre-Sales, or Consulting, with interest in Life Sciences and regulated, research-heavy environments.
Experience:Life sciencesEnterpriseAI toolingRegulated environmentsResearchField engineeringPre-sales
Skills:CommunicationExecutive presenceCustomer obsessionTrusted advisingStakeholder managementProblem-solving

Company Brief

Cursor
Builds Cursor, an AI-powered development platform and code editor that helps developers write, review, and maintain code using large language models and developer-focused automation tools for enterprise engineering teams.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series D
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2022
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