Solutions Engineer salary: $212K median
From 776 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
$212Kmedian advertised salary
$168K – $238Kmiddle half of roles
$206Kaverage advertised salary
776roles counted
Solutions Engineer salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $238K, 10% more than senior roles ($216K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $216K | $174K–$236K | 246 |
| Lead and above | $238K | $202K–$286K | 79 |
| No level in title | $204K | $162K–$230K | 444 |
Solutions Engineer salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸Seattle | $228K | 21 |
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $225K | 189 |
| 🇺🇸California | $218K | 220 |
| 🇺🇸New York | $216K | 146 |
| 🇺🇸Texas | $214K | 46 |
| 🇺🇸Chicago | $214K | 43 |
| 🇺🇸Washington, DC | $214K | 37 |
| 🇺🇸Atlanta | $214K | 20 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $212K | 724 |
| 🇺🇸Austin | $206K | 24 |
| 🇺🇸Boston | $181K | 17 |
| 🇺🇸Denver | $165K | 23 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Harvey | $302K | 5 |
| Sierra | $285K | 16 |
| Snorkel AI | $280K | 5 |
| Cursor | $278K | 5 |
| Goodfire | $268K | 3 |
| Vercel | $265K | 3 |
| Anyscale | $262K | 3 |
| Cloudflare | $262K | 22 |
| Plaid | $260K | 3 |
| Harness | $255K | 13 |
| Baseten | $248K | 6 |
| Amplitude | $242K | 3 |
| OpenAI | $242K | 25 |
| PagerDuty | $240K | 3 |
| Scale AI | $238K | 9 |
| Okta | $238K | 5 |
| Fivetran | $236K | 13 |
| Kong | $235K | 6 |
| Cresta | $235K | 5 |
| Netskope | $232K | 9 |
| Intercom | $228K | 11 |
| Notion | $227K | 8 |
| Grafana Labs | $226K | 10 |
| Pure Storage | $225K | 12 |
| Hex | $222K | 4 |
Highest-paying open Solutions Engineer roles
All solutions engineer jobs- Head of Forward Deployed EngineeringMesh · 🇺🇸New York, NY$600K - $900KLeadRails
- VP, Sales Engineering NAMNetskope · 🇺🇸United States$444K - $634KLead
- Senior Director Digital Native, Customer EngineeringCloudflare · Hybrid$326K - $513KLead
- Head of Solutions Architecture, StartupsVercel · 🇺🇸Hybrid - San Francisco, New York City, Austin$382K - $485KLeadJavaScriptReactNode.js
- Principal Services Solutions Consultant, Americas WWSAPure Storage · 🇺🇸New York, New York; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania$260K - $456KLead
- Forward Deployed Security EngineerOpenAI · 🇺🇸Washington, DC$266K - $445KGoPythonTerraform
- Forward Deployed Engineer, InferenceCohere · 🇺🇸United States$240K - $415KGoPythonC++
- Senior Director, Global SME Solutions ArchitectureGitLab · 🇺🇸Remote, United States$244K - $410KRemoteLeadGCPAzureLLM
- Manager, Forward Deployed EngineeringAnthropic · 🇺🇸New York City, NY$320K - $405K
- Director, Forward Deployed Researcher - Data as a ServiceSnorkel AI · 🇺🇸New York City, NY (Hybrid); San Francisco, CA (Hybrid); U…$228K - $403KRemoteLeadMachine LearningLLM
- VP, Head of Forward Deployed EngineeringSnorkel AI · 🇺🇸New York City, NY (Hybrid); San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)$269K - $403KLeadLLM
- Regional Director, Forward Deployed EngineeringCursor · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$350K - $400KLeadPythonTypeScriptJavaScript
- Regional Director, Forward Deployed Engineering - Public SectorCursor · 🇺🇸Washington, D.C.$350K - $400KLeadPythonTypeScriptJavaScript
- Forward Deployed Engineer (Training)Baseten · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KMachine LearningLLMPyTorch
- Director, Solutions EngineeringIntercom · 🇺🇸NYC, Remote; San Francisco, California$328K - $392KRemoteLead
- Enterprise Solutions Consultant, San FranciscoNotion · 🇺🇸San Francisco, California$306K - $390K
- Forward Deployed Engineering LeadLovable · 🇺🇸New York City$241K - $390KLeadRustGoTypeScript
- Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering- NYCOpenAI · 🇺🇸New York City$302K - $385KPythonJavaScript
- Forward Deployed EngineerFigma · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States$153K - $376KPythonTypeScriptJavaScript
- Head of Customer EngineeringAnyscale · 🇺🇸San Francisco$315K - $375KLeadGCPAzureMachine Learning
Questions about Solutions Engineer pay
- What is the average Solutions Engineer salary?
- $206K a year on average and $212K at the median, across 776 open Solutions Engineer postings at tech companies that state pay (November 2026). The median is the better guide: a few very high offers pull the average up.
- What is the typical range?
- The middle half of the postings offer $168K to $238K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest Solutions Engineer pay?
- Harvey ($302K), Sierra ($285K), Snorkel AI ($280K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- Where do these figures come from?
- From the pay ranges employers print in their own job postings, read from their careers pages every hour. The midpoint of each range is counted. These are advertised ranges for open roles, mostly in the United States and in US dollars, not what people are actually paid.
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The median advertised salary for Solutions Engineer roles at tech companies is $212K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $168K to $238K. Counted from 776 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Hiring Right Now, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/solutions-engineer/
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