# Solutions engineer salary: $165,000–$216,562 a year

Every number below comes from 964 tracked live postings whose title matches "solutions engineer". No surveys, no self-reports. Listed salaries only, in US dollars.

Measured November 2026 · n=322 US postings with salary.

## Findings

- The median solutions engineer posting offers $165,000–$216,562 a year (n=322).
- 41.6% of the 964 live postings matching "solutions engineer" are remote.
- Builds AI (AI Level 4) solutions engineers list $133,300–$213,400, vs $160,000–$219,800 at Little AI (AI Level 1).

## Median salary by seniority (USD / year)

| Segment | US postings with salary | Median min–max / year |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Intern | 0 | not enough data |
| Junior | 1 | $105,000–$137,812 |
| Mid-level | 87 | $140,000–$200,000 |
| Senior | 171 | $166,300–$224,250 |
| Lead | 45 | $143,565–$210,850 |

## Remote vs on-site (USD / year)

| Segment | US postings with salary | Median min–max / year |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Remote | 185 | $170,300–$225,000 |
| On-site / hybrid | 137 | $150,000–$210,910 |

## Companies hiring solutions engineers

- [Salesforce](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/salesforce) (129)
- [Cisco](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/cisco) (118)
- [Snowflake](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/snowflake) (85)
- [NVIDIA](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/nvidia) (25)
- [Freshworks](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/freshworks) (23)
- [Databricks](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/databricks) (19)
- [Hewlett Packard Enterprise](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/hewlett-packard-enterprise) (18)
- [Applied Intuition](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/applied-intuition) (17)

## Method

US-dollar postings whose title contains "solutions engineer", with both salary bounds listed. This page exists because 322 such postings clear the 50-posting floor Level requires before publishing a dedicated salary page. Below that, the median moves too much between ingestion cycles to be a citable number.

Sample: postings at tech companies tracked by Level. Not the whole labor market. Do not cite as a national average.

Refreshed automatically; this edition is measured November 2026. Small-n slices move a lot. Read the n column first.

## Solutions engineer salary questions, answered from the data

**What is the median solutions engineer salary?**

Across 322 live US postings for solutions engineers with a listed USD salary, measured November 2026, the median offer is $165,000–$216,562 a year. This is the tracked catalog, not the whole labor market.

**How many solutions engineers jobs are remote?**

41.6% of the 322 live postings are marked remote by the employer, measured November 2026.

**Does the AI level of the job change the pay?**

In this sample, 18 postings build AI and 518 involve little AI. See the level breakdown below for the median at each level. Measured November 2026.

Source: https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/role/solutions-engineer

## Cite this page

Level. https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/role/solutions-engineer. Measured November 2026.

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