Solutions Engineer Jobs

141 open solutions engineer jobs at 42 employers, updated twice a day.

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The market for solutions engineer roles

As of 23 September, 158 solutions engineer roles are open at 44 employers. 11 new roles have been posted since 21 September. The countries with the most are the United States, India and the United Kingdom. Of the roles that say how they work, 21% are remote or hybrid.

Among the roles listed here, solutions engineers are concentrated most heavily in the United States, which accounts for roughly half of all postings. India is the next largest source, followed by the United Kingdom and Singapore, with Canada and Australia each contributing a small share. The spread of seniority is striking: the large majority of roles that state a level are lead positions, with manager roles making up about a fifth and senior roles a smaller portion still. Mid-level and intern openings are rare. Most postings appeared within the last month, and about a fifth were added in the most recent week. Hiring is notably concentrated, with the majority of roles sitting at a small number of employers. Cloud infrastructure and AI-related capabilities dominate what employers mention in their descriptions.

How recently the open roles were posted

This week 11
Last week 34
Two weeks ago 18
Three weeks ago 14
One to two months ago 35
Two to three months ago 20
Earlier 26

Figures are measured every Monday.

About solutions engineer roles

A solutions engineer sits at the intersection of sales and technical work, helping prospective customers understand how a product or platform can meet their specific needs. The role typically covers product demonstrations, proof-of-concept work, responses to technical proposals and close collaboration with account teams. It differs from a software engineer in that customer-facing communication and commercial outcomes are central, not incidental. It differs from a pure sales role in that hands-on technical depth is expected throughout. In customer-facing contexts the title overlaps with solutions architect; in internal settings the same title can describe someone who designs and documents solutions for an organisation's own problems. People commonly enter from engineering, pre-sales or technical support backgrounds and progress through lead and principal levels or into management.

Skills and experience employers ask for

Cloud platforms feature prominently across descriptions, with AWS mentioned most often, followed by GCP and Azure. AI-related capabilities appear frequently too: agents and large language models each appear in roughly half of descriptions, and retrieval-augmented generation and fine-tuning appear in a substantial minority. APIs and Python are common technical foundations. Prompt engineering appears in a smaller but notable share. Evaluation — assessing model or solution performance — rounds out the picture of a role expected to work fluently across both cloud infrastructure and applied AI.

AWS 54%
Agents 53%
Evaluation 45%
APIs 42%
LLMs 41%
Python 37%
RAG 32%
GCP 23%
Azure 20%
Fine-tuning 19%
Java 18%
Prompt engineering 15%

Share of the open roles' descriptions that mention it, from a sample of 158. A mention is not a requirement.

Where the solutions engineer roles are

United States 69
India 18
United Kingdom 10
Singapore 8
Canada 7
Australia 6
Japan 3
Israel 3
Germany 3
Taiwan 2

Office, hybrid or remote?

On-site work is by far the most common arrangement among roles that state a mode, accounting for the large majority. Hybrid working is mentioned by a small minority, and fully remote roles are similarly rare. Candidates expecting flexible or home-based arrangements will find the options limited, though a modest share of postings do offer them.

Getting a solutions engineer role

  1. Ground demonstrations in customer outcomes Solutions engineers are assessed partly on their ability to connect technical features to a specific customer's problem. Practise framing proof-of-concept work around measurable outcomes rather than feature lists.
  2. Build hands-on cloud and AI fluency AWS, agents and large language models appear across the majority of descriptions. Practical experience designing or deploying solutions on at least one major cloud platform, combined with working knowledge of how LLM-based systems behave in production, will make a portfolio much more credible.
  3. Prepare for senior-level expectations The large majority of openings on the board are at lead or manager level, so most hiring processes will test your ability to lead a technical evaluation, mentor others or own a customer relationship, not just execute tasks under direction.
  4. Treat RFP writing as a core skill Drafting and presenting tailored proposals is a recognised part of the role. Being able to show written work that translates technical architecture into business language is useful evidence in an application.

Questions about solutions engineer jobs

In practice the titles often describe the same customer-facing pre-sales role, covering demonstrations, proof-of-concept work and technical input to proposals. Solutions architect is also used for internal roles focused on designing and documenting solutions for an organisation's own systems, so context matters when reading a job description.

A technical degree is a common route in, but candidates have also qualified through a combination of sales experience and practical technical knowledge. On-the-job training in sales techniques and product specifics is a normal part of starting the role.

Typical work includes running product demonstrations tailored to a specific customer's requirements, building proof-of-concept or proof-of-value projects, contributing technical sections to proposals, and working alongside account or sales colleagues to understand what a customer needs and how best to address it.

Across descriptions on the board, AWS is the most frequently mentioned platform. AI-related skills — particularly working with agents, large language models and retrieval-augmented generation — appear in a large share of postings, suggesting that applied AI knowledge has become a standard expectation rather than a specialism.

Progression typically runs from associate or mid-level through senior and lead or principal positions, with a separate track available into management. The majority of roles currently listed here are at lead or manager level, reflecting that many employers are hiring experienced practitioners rather than those new to the field.