Regional Director, Forward Deployed Engineering (AI)

Location: Singapore, New Delhi, Mumbai, and Bengaluru; the role is based across all three Indian cities named in the description plus Singapore in the listing.

Company

Cursor is building Forward Deployed Engineering capabilities to help enterprise customers create and adopt production-grade Cursor workflows.

What you will do

• Lead the full engagement arc from technical discovery and architecture reviews to executive close, proposals, delivery, and customer handoff.
• Serve as executive technical sponsor for strategic engagements and manage relationships from individual contributors to C-suite stakeholders.
• Ensure project quality through precise scoping, milestone tracking, technical standards, escalation, and coaching.
• Identify product gaps and recurring integration problems, communicating actionable feedback to Product and Engineering.
• Build reusable FDE playbooks and develop a partner FDE track by training and enabling GSI and consulting partners.
• Hire, manage, develop, and scale a team of 6–8 Forward Deployed Engineers.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience leading technical teams that build and ship software in production, including Forward Deployed Engineering, Solutions Engineering, or a similar function where writing and reviewing code is part of the job.
• Software development and coding experience in Python and JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Experience building and owning AI-native workflows in production, beyond prototypes, including debugging real-world model failures.
• Ability to quickly diagnose complex enterprise engineering environments, identify high-leverage interventions, and scope meaningful engagements.
• Experience building and scaling individual-contributor technical teams, with a focus on sharp scoping, clean delivery, and durable customer knowledge.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on leadership role combining technical credibility, people management, customer engagement, and direct involvement in high-stakes accounts.
• Success is measured by durable changes in customer engineering practices after an engagement, not only by shipped output.
• Work includes collaboration with Sales, Account teams, Product, Engineering, GSI partners, and consulting partners.

Hiring process

• Apply for the role through the Cursor careers page.