Field Engineer, Life Sciences
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Field Engineer, Life Sciences at Cursor is a forward deployed ai devtools role for engineers who want customer-facing technical work with real deployment ownership.
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This Forward Deployed Engineer role centers on embedded customer delivery — discovery, prototyping, integration, and production rollout.
About Cursor
Cursor builds AI-native developer tools with a product-led, engineer-heavy culture and fast release cycles. The role is anchored in Remote, so expect on-site customer work in that region.
Stand out for Field Engineer, Life Sciences
- Lead your application with one paragraph tying Field Engineer, Life Sciences to a specific customer or deployment you owned — Cursor hires for shipped outcomes, not tool lists.
- Prepare a 5-minute “week one on site” plan: who you would meet, what you would inspect in their stack, and what artifact you would deliver by day five.
- Show you can go from discovery notes → working integration → production checklist without needing a large internal team.
- This role is tied to Remote — mention willingness to work on-site with customers and any existing ties to that market (clients, partners, or domain knowledge).
Stand out at Cursor
- Demonstrate developer empathy with a concrete example — Cursor will probe for specifics, not buzzwords.
- Demonstrate shipping speed with a concrete example — Cursor will probe for specifics, not buzzwords.
- They hire builders who use the product daily and can talk concretely about how AI changes the SDLC.
- Read recent engineering blog posts, product launches, and customer stories on cursor.com — reference one explicitly in your outreach to show genuine interest.
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Role description
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. We're hiring Field Engineers to partner with prospective and strategic enterprise customers across Life Sciences. You'll be the technical face of Cursor for the scientific organizations shortening the path from lab to market: helping programmers, researchers, scientists, and commercial teams evaluate Cursor, running proofs of concept, and making sure they see the full value of agentic coding in their real workflows. You'll work hand-in-hand with Sales, Product, and Engineering as a deal partner, not a demo resource. You'll scope solutions, demonstrate capabilities, and act as a trusted advisor across the stakeholders that matter in Life Sciences: engineering leaders, architects, developers, scientific computing, R&D, and commercial IT. This is a highly customer-facing role where deep technical fluency, commercial instinct, and clear communication drive adoption and influence product direction. What you'll do - 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: developer workflows, AI tooling, complex setups - Help customers connect Cursor to outcomes that matter: faster R&D cycles and a shorter path from lab to market - Deliver technical presentations, whiteboards, and workshops for scientific and commercial audiences - Act as the customer's technical advocate internally with Product and Engineering - Partner with post-sales to hand off cleanly and set up onboarding for success - Stay