Field Engineer - Asean
About the job
- Strong communication skills and executive presence, with the ability to code alongside developers or present to chief technology officers.
- Deep understanding of the software development lifecycle, modern engineering organization structures, and developer productivity challenges.
- Hands-on technical ability and fluency in technical workflows, artificial intelligence tooling, and debugging complex environments.
- Experience in field engineering, solutions architecture, pre-sales, or consulting for enterprise software.
- Partner with Account Executives to lead technical discovery, demonstrations, 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 and guide customers 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, influence roadmap priorities, and escalate 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 its value effectively.
- Support strategic account planning and help drive expansion opportunities with technical validation.
About the company
Anysphere develops software tools that integrate artificial intelligence into the programming process to increase developer productivity. Its primary product is Cursor, an AI-first code editor that allows users to generate large code changes with minimal effort and receive instant answers to technical questions about their codebase. Unlike traditional editors that treat AI as a secondary plugin, Anysphere builds its system from the ground up to create a hybrid human-AI workflow supported by a team of elite researchers and open-source contributors. The company's goal is to create a coding environment where writing bugs is nearly impossible and software iteration is effortless.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
Acquired
Total Funding
$5.4B
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2022
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Anthropic said it will increase Claude compute in Cursor after August 29, 2026.
- Cursor released Grok 4.7 on September 21, 2026, extending its model roadmap.
- September 2026 product launches target Teams and Enterprise, widening monetization beyond core editor seats.
What critics are saying
- OpenAI ends Cursor model access on November 12, 2026 after the August 14 SpaceX deal.
- Cursor now depends on SpaceXAI, making rival model access and pricing structurally fragile.
- Enterprise buyers distrust a Musk-controlled editor after OpenAI cited contract-violation concerns in August 2026.
What makes Anysphere unique
- Cursor shipped Projects and self-hosted machines on September 10, 2026.
- Cursor launched Rollouts and Security Review for enterprise deployment on September 23, 2026.
- Cursor owns the full coding workflow, from editor to agentic review to production monitoring.
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2%Cursor, the coding assistant maker owned by Anysphere, closed a $2.3 billion Series D round at a $29.3 billion valuation. Accel and Coatue Management co-led the round, with Nvidia participating. The company says annualised revenue has passed $1 billion. Yet its $20 monthly Pro plan frustrates users. Cursor swapped request-based limits for usage-based pricing, so $20 now buys compute at API rates, roughly 225 Sonnet 4 requests. Some users ran out after a few prompts and faced unexpected extra charges. Cursor's chief executive apologised for poor communication and offered refunds for surprise usage between June 16 and July 4, 2025. Complaints about unclear limits and credit use by Agent Mode persist.
OpenAI has ended its partnership with Cursor, the AI coding tool recently acquired by SpaceX for $60 billion, citing concerns it cannot trust Elon Musk's company to adhere to its terms of service. The decision represents a significant financial loss, as Cursor was among OpenAI's top five customers by revenue at the start of 2026. OpenAI estimated Cursor would generate more than $1 billion in annualised revenue based on the partnership's spring performance, according to people familiar with the matter. The company stated it made the choice because it cannot be confident SpaceX will use its technology within service terms, based on experience with Musk's companies violating contracts. Cursor founder Michael Truell, now at SpaceX, responded that OpenAI's models serve only about 5% of Cursor user traffic. OpenAI's Thibault Sottiaux countered that token usage is not a proxy for revenue or value created.
OpenAI terminated its model supply agreement with Cursor on 28 August 2026, two weeks after SpaceX acquired Anysphere for $60 billion. The cut-off took effect on 12 November 2026. OpenAI cited trust concerns regarding Elon Musk's companies, referencing contract violations and allegations that xAI distilled OpenAI models. Musk dismissed the move, calling Sam Altman and Greg Brockman "untrustworthy". Anthropic is filling the gap, increasing compute capacity for Claude models on Cursor. Menlo Ventures data shows Anthropic holds 40% enterprise spend share versus OpenAI's 27%. Anthropic's Q2 2026 revenue reached $11.5 billion, surpassing OpenAI's $6.7 billion, with $8 billion from Claude Code. Anthropic targets an October 2026 IPO at a $965 billion valuation.
Cursor, the SpaceX subsidiary, has developed a new approach to managing Git at scale using object storage. The company built a Git-based repository service called Origin, powered by an internal engine named Continuity. Traditional Git architecture struggles with synchronisation at scale. GitHub's approach uses multiple tightly synchronised copies on NVMe disks, but synchronisation time increases with more replicas. AI agents have exacerbated these challenges by creating vast numbers of small, often throwaway repositories. Cursor's solution stores pushes in Amazon S3 as immutable objects in a write-ahead log, whilst simultaneously writing to a local NVMe repository. S3 serves as the source of truth, whilst local repositories act as warm caches for latency-sensitive operations. A beta of Origin is available with paid Cursor plans.
Cursor, now part of SpaceXAI, has launched Origin, a new code hosting platform designed to rival GitHub. The platform enables developers to collaborate on codebases, manage pull requests, and store repositories. Origin works alongside GitHub, allowing users to sync repositories between both platforms rather than forcing a complete switch. The launch comes amid mounting frustration over GitHub's reliability issues. The platform has experienced 257 outages over the past year, including a six-hour worldwide outage on the same day Origin launched. Despite these challenges, GitHub remains dominant with 180 million developers using the Microsoft-owned platform as of October. Cursor says "agent native" features and a broader app ecosystem will be added to Origin soon, though details remain limited.