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Field Engineering - Japan at Cursor (Japan)

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Role details

Work type
Remote
Employment
Full-Time

Job description

SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today, SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary and expanding consciousness to the stars.

SpaceXSI is building Super Intelligence to help humanity understand the universe. Our teams are building the full Super Intelligence stack: from our Colossus supercomputers, to Grok models, to our suite of applications, including Grok Bot, Grok Build, Grok Imagine, Grok Voice, and X. We're creating a powerful flywheel where more compute trains better models, better models power more useful products, and what we learn from people using those products shapes what we build next.

FIELD ENGINEERING - JAPAN

We're hiring Field Engineers to partner with prospective and strategic enterprise customers. As a Field Engineer, you'll be the technical face of SpaceXSI in the field, helping customers evaluate SpaceXSI, 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.

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • 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 SpaceXSI's capabilities and competitive landscape to position our value effectively
  • Support strategic account planning and help drive expansion opportunities with technical validation

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

  • Experience in Field Engineering, Solutions Architecture, Pre-Sales, or Consulting for enterprise software

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

  • Strong communication skills and executive presence, equally comfortable coding alongside developers or presenting to CTOs
  • A deep understanding of the software development lifecycle, modern engineering org structures, and developer productivity challenges
  • Hands-on technical ability, and while you don't need to be a full-time engineer, you should be fluent in technical workflows, AI tooling, and debugging complex environments
  • Customer-obsessed with a knack for translating technical details into business impact
  • Thrive in a startup environment: resourceful, adaptable, and proactive in creating solutions

Why work at Cursor

  • Mission-driven research environment: Cursor describes itself as "an applied research team focused on building the future of software development" — a rare blend of R&D and product engineering
  • Talent density: The company "obsesses over talent to an unusual degree" and designs itself as "a haven for self-motivated individual contributors"
  • Rapid growth trajectory: From 0 to $3B ARR in ~4 years — employees work on products used by millions and see massive scale
  • Compensation: Competitive for AI/engineering talent; top-of-market salaries and equity in a high-valuation private company
  • Work policy: Mix of in-office (San Francisco, New York) and remote roles; many engineering roles are on-site
  • Engineering culture: Two-day on-site final interviews with the core team; no AI tools allowed in first-round coding interviews — they value raw problem-solving
  • Team composition: 579 employees with strong talent density from Stripe, Figma, Notion, Vercel, Graphite, Slack, Rubrik, and Plaid
  • Recent departures to: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, AWS — alumni are highly sought after

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